Carlos A. Primo Braga is professor of international political economy at IMD, Lausanne and director of the Evian Group@IMD, an international coalition of corporate, government and opinion leaders, united by a common vision of enhancing global prosperity via an open, inclusive and equitable global market economy in a rules-based multilateral framework. Before joining IMD, he was the special representative and director for Europe, The World Bank. He was also director, Economic Policy and Debt, and the acting VP and corporate secretary of the World Bank Group and acting executive secretary of the Development Committee. Other responsibilities at the World Bank included: anchoring strategic relationships with key shareholder groupings (e.g., G7/8, G20, G24, APEC, ASEM) and with institutions such as the IMF, Commonwealth Secretariat and OECD; senior advisor of the International Trade Department, responsible for dialogue with European-based institutions, including the OECD, the EC, UNCTAD and the WTO; senior manager at the Information Solutions Group and director of the Development Gateway. From 1997 to 2001, he was the manager of infoDev, The World Bank. His main areas of research interest include international trade, foreign direct investment, economics of innovation, intellectual property rights, sovereign debt, global governance and development economics. He holds degree s in mechanical engineering from ITA (Brazil); an M.Sc. in economics from the University of São Paulo, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.