Jimena Sotelo is Trade and Investment Lead at the Centre for Regions, Trade and Geopolitics at the World Economic Forum, based in New York. Her work focuses on the intersection of trade policy, emerging technologies and global economic cooperation, including around digital trade, trade in services, digital payments, supply chain resilience and investment.
She has more than 17 years of experience in international trade, having worked for international organizations and the private sector. Before joining the Forum, she worked for the International Trade Centre (a joint UN/WTO agency) and the think tank ICTSD in Geneva, as well as for the Organization of American States in Washington DC. Her experience in the private sector was at DuPont and Banco Comafi SA, in Buenos Aires.
She holds a Master of International Law and Economics from the World Trade Institute (WTI) at the University of Bern, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude. She has a bachelor’s degree in international trade and a postgraduate course in international business from the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE), where she was awarded top honours.
She is fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, and is a citizen of Argentina and Italy.
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