I am a trade and development economist, currently working as Senior Economist in the Trade and Regional Integration Unit at the World Bank, where I lead the services trade team. Previously, I worked on Competition and SOEs in the Competition Policy Unit, and before that in the Trade Unit of the Research Department, where I co-created the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database and published several papers on export growth and development.
Before rejoining the World Bank in 2021, I worked for the Inter-American Development Bank where I studied the impact of import competition and migration shocks on labor outcomes and firm-level productivity in Latin America.
I have a PhD in International Economics from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva and a Master of International Law and Economics from the World Trade Institute in Bern.
Senior Economist Trade and Regional Integration Unit Trade, Competition and Business mpierola@worldbank.org