Asia Regional Integration Center

Annabelle Mourougane joined the OECD in 2001, and has held a number of senior positions in the Economics Department, including leading the UK/Netherlands and the Indonesia/Brazil Desks, heading the Fiscal Policy Workstream and holding several Deputy Head of Division positions. From 2019, Ms Mourougane was lead Economist in the Trade and Agriculture Directorate where she led its analytical work on services trade. Prior to joining the OECD, Ms Mourougane worked at the French National Statistical Agency (INSEE), the European Central Bank, the French Fiscal Council and the Court of Audit.

She has published extensively in international academic journals, in the areas of forecasting and modelling, trade, labour market and fiscal policy. Recent publications include the impact of travel bans on services trade costs, an assessment of the trade impact of UK’s exit from the Single Market and developing models to nowcast services trade.

She holds Master’s Degrees in Economics and Econometrics (ENSAE) and in Macroeconomics (EHESS and École Polytechnique).

Pramila Crivelli is an economist in the Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Her main fields of specialization are applied econometrics in international trade policy, regional trade agreements, trade negotiations, rules or origin, nontariff measures and geographical indications. At ADB, her portfolio also covers APEC and regional public goods.

Prior to joining ADB in November 2020, she was an assistant professor at the Goethe University Frankfurt leading the Chair of International Trade. Her work has been published in academic peer reviewed journals including the Journal of International Economics and the World Economy.

She received her PhD from the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She accumulated extensive experience in applied economic policy and technical cooperation serving as an economic affairs officer at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, researching at the European University Institute and the World Trade Organization, and carrying out consultancies for various clients in Asia and Africa. She has a strong expertise in delivering capacity building and advisory services to governments, public and private institutions, and trade negotiators in multilateral and regional fora.

Antonella Liberatore joined the OECD in 2019 and since April 2022 is Head of the Trade Statistics Section in the OECD Statistics and Data Directorate, where she’s leading the section’s program of work on trade and business statistics.

She has over twelve years’ experience with international trade statistics and she actively contributes to the development of international guidance to deal with the emerging challenges in measuring international trade, notably with respect to global value chains, digitalization of transactions and trade by mode of supply.

From 2010 to 2019, Antonella was a Statistician at the World Trade Organization. She was responsible for the production and dissemination of all data products related to trade in services statistics and contributed to a number of WTO flagship publications.

Antonella holds a MS in Applied Economics from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Spain) and a MS in Management Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy).

Janos Ferencz is a trade policy analyst at the Trade in Services Division of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He works on analysing policy trends affecting services trade globally using the OECD’s Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI), and manages the annual update of the STRI regulatory database and indices. Additionally, Janos’ work covers digital trade focusing on lowering trade barriers for digitally enabled services. He developed the OECD Digital STRI tool, and contributed to analysis on digital trade and market openness, cross-border data flows, and the trade implications of new digital technologies such as artificial intelligence. Janos also engages with various international and regional partners, including APEC and ASEAN, to assist interested economies in benefitting from the STRI tools. Janos is a jurist with background in international trade law.