Nicholas Frank

Nicholas Frank is a Laureate Research Fellow with the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse at RegNet. Nicholas specialises in international political economy, comparative political economy, and development. His research interests include global trade and investment policy, production and consumption governance, and sustainable development. He employs formal theory, econometrics, inferential network approaches, and text-as-data techniques in his research. Nicholas’s current research is focused on the political economy of planetary health equity governance architectures at the global and domestic levels.

Before joining RegNet, Nicholas worked as an Associate Lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at ANU where he taught classes in international political economy, development, and international relations. Prior to this, Nicholas worked at the World Trade Organisation and International

Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development on a variety of trade and development topics including value chain integration and upgrading, trade negotiations, regional integration, trade and gender, and services sector development. He has been invited to present his policy research on trade governance and sustainable development at numerous international conferences and workshops. He continues to consult for the UN and OECD on inclusive and sustainable trade, the digital economy, and industrial policy.

Nicholas holds a PhD in Regulation and Global Governance from ANU, an MSc in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics, as well as Honours in International Relations and a Bachelor of Commerce (Politics, Philosophy, and Economics) from the University of Cape Town. He has undertaken graduate quantitative methods training at Purdue and the University of Michigan.