Professor Francois is Managing Director and professor of economics at the World Trade Institute. He is a fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London), co-director of the European Trade Study Group and the Institute for International and Development Economics, senior research fellow with the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, a board member of the Global Trade Analysis Project, and co-editor of the World Trade Review. Previously, he was professor of economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam, professor of economics at the Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, research economist for the World Trade Organization, and chief of research and acting director of economics for the U.S. International Trade Commission.