TPRForumCURATED COLLECTION · 5 WEBINARS
Practical conversations about careers, consulting, and communicating evidence.
2024-10
Independent trade-policy work takes several forms: solo practice, a consulting firm, or a specialist team within a university. The panel explains how to find first assignments, become visible through substantive work, and choose a business model that fits the work one actually wants to do.
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2024-05
Bob Koopman and Michael Ferrantino explain how to brief policymakers without burying the answer or compromising the analysis. Their examples cover concise recommendations, intelligible uncertainty, political constraints, and misunderstandings when economists, lawyers, and advocates share a room.
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2023-09
Five practitioners describe nonlinear routes into trade policy. Their advice combines technical training, field exposure, communication and experimentation. Country experience reveals implementation constraints that headquarters work can miss; recruitment values different combinations of skills depending on the actual role.
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2022-09
Vicky Chemutai, Greg Messenger, and Michael Ferrantino describe different routes into trade-policy work. Their advice emphasizes credible skills, thoughtful outreach, and communication, while their discussion of doctoral training acknowledges institutional constraints and personal tradeoffs.
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2021-05
Michael Ferrantino, Marion Jansen, and Caroline Rubin describe nonlinear routes into trade policy and the skills that sustain them. Their advice connects substantive expertise with project management, professional relationships, and realistic expectations about entry contracts, including routes that begin outside international organizations.
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