Dominique van der Mensbrugghe is Research Professor and Director of
the Center for Global Trade Analysis (GTAP) at Purdue University. Prior
to joining Purdue, he worked at a trio of international agencies—Senior
Economist and Team Leader of the Global Perspectives Studies Team at the
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Lead
Economist in the Development Prospects Group at the World Bank and
Senior Economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development (OECD). The focus of his work during his career has been on
long-term structural change of the global economy and the analysis of
global economic policy issues—including agricultural policies, regional
and multilateral trade agreements, demographics and international
migration, the Millennium Development Goals, and climate change. His
work has appeared frequently in various economic journals and the
agencies’ flagship reports and he is one of the world’s experts on
global computable general equilibrium modeling. He holds both Belgian
and U.S. citizenship, received his undergraduate degree in mathematics
at the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium and a PhD in
economics from the University of California, Berkeley.