Dr Yann Duval

Dr. Yann Duval is Chief, Trade Policy and Facilitation Section, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). Since joining ESCAP in 2002, he has designed and delivered capacity building programmes and advisory services on trade policy and facilitation throughout the ESCAP region, including the trade facilitation segment of the Regional WTO Trade Policy Course at the National University of Singapore. He has led the team supporting the intergovernmental negotiation, and since 2021, the implementation of the UN treaty and framework agreement on facilitation of cross-border paperless trade in Asia and the Pacific. Dr. Duval has been instrumental in the creation and development of the Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT), a network of leading research and academic institutions in developing countries of the region aiming at building capacity in trade and investment policy and facilitation research for evidence-based policy making. H