Aksel Erbahar is Associate Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam and a research fellow at the Tinbergen Institute. His research lies at the intersection of international trade and political economy, with a focus on trade policy. He is particularly interested in how trade barriers shape global value chains and how lobbying and geopolitical shocks influence trade dynamics. He is a co-author of the World Bank’s Temporary Trade Barriers Database.

Aksel previously worked as a consultant at the World Bank and for the UK Trade Remedies Authority, and served as a Visiting Fellow at the Asian Development Bank. At Erasmus School of Economics, he teaches courses in international trade policy and firms in international trade at both undergraduate and graduate levels. More information is available on his personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/akselerbahar/.