Mia Mikic is director, Trade, Investment and Innovation Division in the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP). She also coordinates the Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT), an open network of research and academic institutions and think tanks in the Asia-Pacific region. Previously, she was professor of International Economics at the University of Zagreb, and senior lecturer at the University of Auckland. She is the author of International Trade (Macmillan, 1998), co-author of Trade Statistics in Policymaking – A Handbook of Commonly Used Trade Indices and Indicators (United Nations, 2009), journal and technical papers, and has edited or co-edited several volumes, most recently with Bruno Jetin, ASEAN Economic Community – A Model for Asia-Wide Regional Integration? (Palgrave, 2016). She led a development of the Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Agreements Database of ESCAP which monitors trade performance of the trade agreements for the regional economies. She oversees the preparation of the Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Report, a flagship publication of ESCAP in the area of trade and investment. Her current work focuses on the impacts of preferential and multilateral trade liberalization, services trade liberalization, nontariff protection, Aid for Trade, and evidence-based policymaking in trade. She has a Master’s degree in International Business from St. Mary’s College of California and a PhD degree in Economics from the University of Zagreb.