Dr Arno Hold, Fellow, LSE International Trade Policy Unit & LSE Centre for International Studies
Consultant / Researcher / Lecturer in International Trade & Development
Key areas of expertise: innovation, IP, trade and economic development, investment, competition, global value chains, and regional integration. |
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Area of Expertise: |
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Capacity Building, Training, Advocacy
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Fundraising, Business Development, Grants Writer
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Monitoring, Evaluation, Policy, Research, Analysis
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Private Sector, Social Enterprise, Corporate Social Responsibility
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Trade, Finance, Economics, Cooperation, Global
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Professional Experience: |
Arno Hold is a Fellow at the Centre of International Studies and the International Trade Policy Unit of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Dr Hold regularly works as an international consultant and has obtained several expert mandates to provide trade-related policy advice, capacity-building programmes and technical assistance projects in a variety of developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Europe.
From 2013-2015, he lead a postdoctoral research project in the framework of the National Centre of Competence in Trade Regulation that focussed on the role of innovation and competition in international trade governance.
During a visiting scholarship at the School of Economics and Finance of the University of Hong Kong. Dr Hold co-founded the WTI/CUHK Hong Kong Summer Programme on International Intellectual Property, jointly organised by the World Trade Institute of the University of Bern and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and acted for three years as its Programme Director.
His professional career includes positions as a Coordinator for International Cooperation and Project Director at the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, as a Project Officer at a think tank in Geneva and as a Business Development Consultant in Singapore. Furthermore, Dr Hold was a Research Assistant at the Institute for International Law of the University of Zurich and completed internships at the UN Headquarters in New York and at the Strategic Leadership Training Unit of the Swiss Federal Chancellery.
He has lectured at the South-Western University of Finance & Economics in Chengdu, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Transatlantic IP Summer Academy of Bocconi University, and the Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences in Zurich.
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Education: |
Dr Hold received his Ph.D. in International Affairs and Political Economics from the Swiss Institute for International Economics & Applied Economic Research of the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland(Doctoral thesis: ‘The Relationship between Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Economic Development’, Supervisors: Dr Carsten Fink (WIPO Chief Economist) and Professor Simon J. Evenett (University of St. Gallen)).
He is a graduate of the World Trade Institute’s MILE programme (Master of International Law and Economics) and holds a master degree in Political Science from the Universities of Bern, Zurich and Bologna.
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