Luciana Mermet

Luciana is currently working with the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) Bureau for Development Policy. As a Policy Specialist, Trade and Poverty, with the Poverty Practice,  Luciana works with the Inclusive Globalization team on the trade portfolio. Her main areas of work include supporting UNDP’s role in the Enhanced Integrated Framework for trade capacity development in least developed countries (LDCs) and the Aid for Trade initiatives, as well as MDG8 monitoring. Before joining UNDP in 2007, Luciana worked for four years as trade officer in the Foreign Trade Division of the Ministry of Economy and Production in Argentina, where she was involved in multilateral and regional negotiations with a focus on non-agricultural goods, rules, dispute settlement, South-South cooperation and multilateral environmental agreements.  Luciana also worked with the Economic Development Division of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Chile backstopping the Economic Division's trade and fiscal policy adviser, and taught and researched international trade related subjects at Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero in Argentina.