Economic integration, trade, investment and sectoral analyses

Jawad Kerdoudi

Mon, 14/06/2010 - 09:55 | by admin
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Scientific coordination, Team leaders , Economic integration, trade, investment and sectoral analyses
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First name: 
Jawad
Last name: 
Kerdoudi
Position: 
Scientific Bureau, IMRI team leader
IMRI
Phone: 
+ 212 522 44 64 47
Biography: 

After graduating from HEC Paris in 1965, Jawad Kerdoudi was recruited by the Bureau for Exports Commercialization of Morocco which had the monopoly on Moroccan exports of agricultural products by then. After a successful career, he became chief officer of the bureau in Hamburg (Germany) and New York (United States) while at the same time being Consul General of the Kingdom of Morocco. He came back to Morocco where he held various executive positions within the Bureau of Exports Commercialization and its holding company. After being in charge of wine exports, he retired in 2002 and created the Moroccan Institute of International Relations (IMRI) in 2003, a think tank devoted to the analysis of changing international relations. Simultaneously to his executive position at IMRI, Jawad Kerdoudi teaches international trade at graduate level in Rabat and Casablanca. He is the author of several books on Moroccan external trade, on the Spanish model in addition to regular articles and commentaries in the Moroccan media.

Dr. Luc de Wulf

Thu, 10/06/2010 - 18:37 | by admin
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Scenario building committee, Work Package leaders, Economic integration, trade, investment and sectoral analyses
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9
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Title: 
Dr.
First name: 
Luc
Last name: 
De Wulf
Position: 
Scenario Building Committee, WP5 leader
CASE
Phone: 
+48 22 622 66 27
Biography: 

Luc De Wulf, a Belgian national obtained his economic degree at the Katholieke Universiteit van Leuven, Belgium, and a PhD in Economics from Clark University, Worcester, Mass., USA. After a two-year teaching assignment at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, he joined the International Monetary Fund, where he worked both in the Fiscal Affairs and the Asian Departments. He transferred to the World Bank in 1988, where he worked in both the African and Middle Eastern Departments as macro economist with a focus on fiscal and trade issues. Upon his retirement from the World Bank in 2000, he worked as consultant with the Trade Department and WBI. In that capacity he managed the Diagnostic Trade Integration Studies for Mauritania and Senegal, and supported a variety of customs modernization initiatives financed by the World Bank and other bilateral development agencies. He is the author of numerous scientific articles that appeared in professional journals. More recently he co-edited with Jose Sokol, two books: Customs Modernization Initiatives (World Bank 2004) and Customs Modernization Handbook (World Bank 2005). The latter publication is available in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Chinese and Vietnamese.