Hubert Escaith is the World Trade Organization’s Chief Statistician and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Development Economics and International Finance, Université de la Méditerranée, France. Before joining WTO, he worked for the United Nations in the Middle East and in Latin America, where his last position was as Director, Division of Statistics and Economic Modelling at ECLAC (Santiago, Chile). He holds a Doctorate in Mathematics Applied to Economics from Toulouse University (France) and a Master from ESSEC– Business School (Paris-Cergy, France).