Caroline Freund

Caroline Freund is dean of UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS) and an expert in international trade and economic development. Prior to joining GPS as dean, she served as global director of Trade, Investment and Competitiveness at the World Bank. Freund also served as a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. In addition, she has worked as chief economist for the Middle East and North Africa at the World Bank. Freund began her career in the international finance division of the Federal Reserve Board and spent a year visiting the research department of the IMF. The author of “Rich People Poor Countries: The Rise of Emerging Market Tycoons and their Mega Firms,” Freund was co-director of the World Bank’s flagship World Development Report 2020 on Global Value Chains. She has also published many articles on the effects of regional trade agreements and edited a volume on “The WTO and Reciprocal Preferential Trading Agreements.” Her work has appeared in the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of International Economics and the Journal of Development Economics.