Carmel Cahill, Senior Counsellor, Trade and Agriculture Directorate

 

Carmel Cahill

Senior Counsellor, Trade and Agriculture Directorate

 

 

 

 


 

 

Carmel Cahill is Senior Counsellor in OECD’s Directorate for Trade and Agriculture, where she is responsible for a wide range of strategic planning, coordination and communication activities covering food, agriculture and international trade issues.

She was previously Head of the Policies and Trade in Agriculture Division, where she worked with an international team of economists and policy analysts on a broad range of domestic and international policy issues relating to food and agriculture; measurement and evaluation of support and protection levels; impacts of domestic and trade policy reform; decoupling; multifunctionality; and the study of the knowledge base and institutions needed for the design and implementation of effective policy reform.

Before joining OECD in 1983, she held various jobs in the ministries of Agriculture and Finance in her native Ireland. She holds B. A. and M.A. degrees in Economics from University College, Cork and a Master of Science degree in Statistics from Trinity College, Dublin.