Autor: Paul Brenton

Paul Brenton is the Trade Practice Leader in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Department of the Africa Region of the World Bank. He led the recent World Bank volumes on Africa Can Help Feed Africa and De-Fragmenting Africa: Deepening Regional Integration in Goods and Services. Previously, he worked in the Trade Department of the Bank where he worked for several years on issues related to trade reform, focusing in particular on regional integration, with extensive experience in Africa, East and Central Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. His previous posts include Research Fellow and Head of the Trade Policy Unit at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels. Before that, he was a lecturer in economics at the University of Birmingham in the UK. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of East Anglia.