Mulder, Johan

Johan (Nanno) Mulder is a Visiting Research Fellow at UNU-CRIS. He is Chief of the International Trade Unit within the Division of International Trade and Integration of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. His main areas of research and technical assistance are on the region’s participation in global value chains in general and services in particular, digital trade and e-commerce, and sustainable trade with a focus on the internationalization of SMEs, gender equality, and circular economy.

He worked as an economist at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in the team for Latin America of the Economics Department (2002-2005) and as a researcher at the French Centre for Prospective and International Studies (CEPII) (1996 -2002). He has a Master's and PhD in economics from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Mr. Mulder is also co-founder and President of the Latin American network for research and policy on services (https://comunidades.cepal.org/redlas/en). From January to March 2017, he was a visiting researcher at the Institute of Social Studies in the Hague.

At UNU-CRIS, Mr. Mulder will do research and work on a policy agenda to promote regional integration in Latin America's digitally delivered services (DDS) as part of the Economic Interactions Cluster. Nanno will also be part of the Economic Interactions cluster. His goals are fivefold:

A. Review the literature on critical features of successful regional integration experiences in DDS in Asia, Europe, and North America;

B. Assess the degree of regional integration in DDS in Mercosur and the Pacific Alliance using official and experimental trade data;

C. Evaluate the regulatory heterogeneity in DDS among members of these two integration schemes and their potential impact on bilateral trade flows;

D. Assess the role of other factors that could limit DDS trade, following tested methodologies, available data, and evidence from other regions; and

E. Propose regulatory convergence and other measures in DDS in Mercosur and the Pacific Alliance to deepen their integration agendas.