Foreign Investment: How to make it work for developing countries
Policy reforms need to address low financial returns which hamper the contribution of FDI to sustainable development.
Simon J. Evenett
Simon J. Evenett is Professor of International Trade and Economic Development, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland and Founder of the St. Gallen Endowment for Prosperity Through Trade.
Simon Evenett is a professor of international trade and economic development at the University of St. Gallen and the coordinator of Global Trade Alert, the independent trade policy monitor. He served twice as a World Bank official, has been a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, as well as a Member of the High Level Group on Globalization established by then French Trade Minister Christine LaGarde, a Member of the Warwick Commission on the Future of the Multilateral Trading System after Doha, and a Member of the Zedillo Committee on the Global Trade and Financial Architecture. In 2020 he was invited to join the Global Future Council on Trade and Investment of the World Economic Forum.
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Foreign Investment: How to make it work for developing countries