Emily Jones is a project associate for the GEG’s Global Trade Governance Project. She is leading a research project examining the constraints that face small developing countries in international trade negotiations, in collaboration with the Commonwealth Secretariat. Whilst systemic global constraints to small developing countries engaging in negotiations are well known and well documented, the research seeks to enhance understanding of how small states can manoeuvre effectively at the margins of international trade negotiations.

Emily is reading for a DPhil in the International Relations and Politics Department, Oxford University, where she is examining the political economy of the Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations between Europe and African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries. Prior to this, she worked as a trade policy adviser for Oxfam GB, as a trade economist in Ghana’s Ministry of Trade and Industry, and for the UK’s Department for International Development in Brazil.

Emily holds a MSc in Development Economics from the School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London, and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford.