Celine Bacrot is Economic Affairs Officer, Trade Facilitation Section, UNCTAD. She has over 20 years of work experience with a focus on trade, regional integration and trade facilitation. From 2003 until 2008, she worked in UNCTAD as focal point of the Enhanced Integrated Framework (IF) for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) on the formulation of trade development strategies. Afterwards, she spent more than 10 years based in East Africa working for several UN agencies (UN-Habitat and UNICEF) and set up a consultancy firm in Arusha, Tanzania, working on trade projects, mainly regional integration, trade development strategies, and trade facilitation in the EAC region and Asia-Pacific.
Since 2014, she has been the regional coordinator for the UNCTAD Trade Facilitation project in East
Africa. She has a Master in Economics with a specialization in Economic Development as well as a
Degree in Political Science, Development and Co-operation from the University of Paris-La Sorbonne.