Dr Frank van Tongeren

Frank van Tongeren is a seasoned economist specialised in trade-related policy analysis. He has held various positions at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) between 2006-2024, most recently as Senior Counsellor and Head of the Analysis, Data and Modelling Division in the Trade and Agriculture Directorate. On behalf of the OECD he was actively involved in G20 and G7 work streams on agriculture and on trade.

His broad work experience includes non-tariff measures and trade-related international regulatory co-operation, trade in raw materials, agricultural policy design and -monitoring. Economic modelling, in particular computable general equilibrium models, and statistical analysis run as a red thread through his work on evidence-based policy support. His previous positions include senior management and -research positions at the Dutch Agriculture Economic Research Institute (LEI, now called Wageningen Economic Research), and an assistant professorship at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has worked with government officials, international organisations, and academic institutions on five continents and has  contributed to projects on behalf of the World Bank, UN FAO, UNDP, UNECA, UN IMO, the European Commission, the Dutch government and the International Energy Agency (IEA). He holds a PhD in economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam (1993). He has held associate, visiting and lecturing positions at various academic institutions, including the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing; Mansholt Graduate School, Wageningen; the Centre of Policy Studies, Monash University, Melbourne; ESSEC Business School, Paris, the World Trade Institute, Bern; CEPII, Paris and he has taught courses at Purdue University, USA.

Frank is a long-standing member of the advisory board of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) and is  co-chair of its Scientific Advisory Council. He has published widely in professional journals.