and on economic integration in the Euro-Mediterranean Region and has contributed to several other research studies for the European Commission. She obtained a Ph.D. in economics from Sussex University and master’s degrees in international economics from Sussex and Warsaw Universities. Tadatsugu (Toni) Matsudaira joined the World Bank in 2009 as a Senior Trade Facilitation Specialist in the International Trade Department. He is an expert on customs and border management reform and modernization, as well as trade facilitation, and has contributed to several projects in these areas. Prior to joining the Bank he worked for the Japanese Government on international customs matters and trade facilitation policy formulation and was the Tokyo based head delegate on trade facilitation to the World Trade Organization from 2001 to 2003. He also served three years with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, specializing in border procedural barriers, and five years with the WCO focused on trade facilitation. Toni holds a bachelor’s degree in Information Engineering from Keio University and a diploma in Quantitative Development Economics from the University of Warwick, UK.
Monica Alina Mustra is a Trade Facilitation and Logistics Specialist with the International Trade Department of the World Bank. Since joining in 2004 she has worked on a number of the Bank’s
Michaela Prokop spent three years (2004–07) as Afghanistan country economist for the Asian Development Bank, where she was in charge of several governance reform programs and regional cooperation and trade facilitation projects. She subsequently joined the World Bank team working on the Emergency Customs Modernization and Trade Facilitation Project and contributed to the development of the Governance and Accountability Action Plan for Afghan Customs. She is currently working as a freelance consultant focusing on governance issues. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Economy from the University of Durham, UK. Sebastián Sáez is a Senior Trade Economist working at the Trade Department, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network at the World Bank. He studied economics at the University of Chile. He earned his Master in Public Sector Economics at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and studied at the Programme de Specialisation en Diplomatie Multilateral at the Institute Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales in Geneva. He has published several articles on international economic relations and the book Estrategia y Negociación en el Sistema Multilateral de Comercio (Dolmen Ediciones, 1999). He is co-editor with O. Cattaneo, M. Engman, and R. Stern of the book International Trade in Services: New Trends and Opportunities for Developing Countries (World Bank, 2010). He also edited Trade in B O R D E R M A N A G E M E N T M O D E R N I Z AT I O N
Editors and contributing authors
Jean-Christophe Maur is a Senior Economist in the Growth and Competitiveness Program at the World Bank Institute. His current responsibilities there include leading the regional integration program and contributing to the Development Debates platform. Jean-Christophe joined the World Bank in 2008 from the UK Department of International Development, where he was in charge of UK trade negotiations in several areas and also of managing multilateral trade assistance. His research interests are regional trade integration and public goods, trade facilitation and nontariff barriers, intellectual property rights, and trade institutions. Jean-Christophe has a Doctorate from Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and is a graduate of Essec business school. He was also a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University.
trade and transport related flagship projects, including the Logistics Performance Indicators (LPI), as well as on the organization of policy dialogues, workshops, seminars, and distance learning courses. She is currently Coordinator for the Global Facilitation Partnership for Transportation and Trade. Prior to joining the World Bank she worked for the Harvard Center for International Development, the European Commission, and the Romanian Ministry of Finance. She holds a Master’s in Mathematics and Information Technology from University of Craiova, Romania, a Certificate in International Tax Policy and Administration from Harvard Law School, and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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