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Dr Jan Hoffmann
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Chief of Trade Facilitation Section
Trade Logistics Branch
UNCTAD
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Jan joined UNCTAD in 2003, currently working as Chief of the organization's Trade Facilitation Section. He is in charge of various multilateral trade facilitation programmes, as well as regional and national projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He created and co-edits the quarterly “Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter”, is co-author and coordinator of the annual “Review of Maritime Transport”, initiated the UNCTAD “Maritime Country Profiles”, and he created and produces the annual “Liner Shipping Connectivity Index”.
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Previously, he spent six years with the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago de Chile, and two years with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London and Santiago. Prior to this, he held part time positions as assistant professor, import-export agent, seafarer, translator and consultant. For eight years, he also worked part time for the family shipping business “Hoffmann Shipping”, which was registered in St. Johns, Antigua and Barbuda.
Jan has studied in Germany, United Kingdom and Spain, and holds a
PhD in Economics from the University of Hamburg. His work has resulted in numerous UN and peer reviewed publications, lectures and technical missions, the ECLAC International Transport Data Base, and various electronic newsletters. Jan is member of the advisory and editorial boards of IJSTL, INCU, JST, MEL and MPM, and the Committee of the Propeller Club of Geneva. In 2014, Jan was elected president of the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME).
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