Simon Mevel is currently working as an Economic Affairs Officer for the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). Prior to joining the UN in 2011, he had been working successively for the Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales (CEPII), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the World Bank. He has over 15 years of experience in assessment of trade and environmental reforms with a focus on development issues, and more than 40 publications to date. He has developed and conducted a number of capacity building programmes, particularly on trade policy analysis, in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He also managed development assistance programmes for African countries.