Professor L. Alan Winters CB

L Alan Winters is Principal Investigator and Co-Director of the ESRC-funded Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy, and a leading contributor to research and debate on Brexit and the UK’s post-Brexit trade policy.

From 2008 to 2011 he was Chief Economist at the British government’s Department for International Development (DFID), and from 2004 to 2007 Director of the Development Research Group of the World Bank. He has advised, inter alia, various UK government departments, the OECD, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the European Commission, the European Parliament, UNCTAD, the WTO, and the Inter-American Development Bank. He was made a Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath in 2012.

His current work is substantially devoted to research and policy analysis on UK post-Brexit trade policy.