OECD Development Centre - Andrea Goldstein, Senior Economist

Andrea Goldstein is a Senior Economist at the Centre, currently working on private sector development and foreign direct investment in sub-Saharan Africa and other developing regions. In January-August 2004 Andrea worked at the World Bank Group as Senior Investment Policy Officer at the Foreign Investment Advisory Service, where he task managed projects in Burkina Faso and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Andrea was previously at the OECD Economics Department and Consob, the Italian Securities and Exchange Commission, and has been a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank and the UK Department for International Development. He received a Laurea in Economia Politica from Bocconi University in Milan and a Master in International Affairs from Columbia University in New York.

Recent publications:

• Liberalization and Foreign Direct Investment in Asian Transport Systems: The Case of Aviation, with C. Findlay (Asian Development Review, vol. 21, no. 1, 2004)
• The Political Economy of Strategic Trade Policy and the Brazil–Canada Export Subsidies Saga, with S. McGuire (The World Economy, vol. 27, no. 4, 2004)
• What Can be Learned from Continental Europe’s Largest Privatisation Program? – Italy 1993 to 2003 (CESifo DICE Report 1, 2004)
• The Political Economy of Regulatory Reform - Telecoms in the Southern Mediterranean (OECD Development Centre Working Paper No.216, 2003)
• EMBRAER: From national champion to global player (CEPAL Review, no. 77, 2002)
• The political economy of high-tech industries in developing countries: aerospace in Brazil, Indonesia and South Africa (Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol. 26, pp. 521-538)
• Agências Reguladoras Brasileiras: Avaliação e Desafios, with José Claudio Linhares Pires, Revista do BNDES, vol. 8, no. 16, 2001

Contact: Andrea.Goldstein@oecd.org