L. Alan Winters CBEmeritus Professor of Economics University of Sussex

L Alan Winters is Professor Emeritus of Economics. He was Principal Investigator and Co-Director of the ESRC-funded Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy and Founding Director of the UK Trade Policy Observatory, both in the University of Sussex. He is a leading contributor to research and debate on Brexit and the UK's post-Brexit trade policy. From 2008 to 2011 he was Chief Economist at the British government’s Department for International Development (DFID), and from 2004 to 2007 Director of the Development Research Group of the World Bank. He was editor of The World Trade Review (2008-2020). He has also been Chairman of the Board of the Global Development Network, a Member of the Council of the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council and Chair of its Research Committee and Chief Executive Officer of the Migrating Out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium, also based in Sussex. He has advised, inter alia, various UK government departments, the OECD, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the European Commission, the European Parliament, UNCTAD, the WTO, and the Inter-American Development Bank. He was made a Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath in 2012. He has authored or edited over 40 books and over 250 articles and chapters.