Jim Rollo

University of Sussex and Sussex European Institute

Jim Rollo has been Professor of European Economic Integration at the University of Sussex and Co-Director of the Sussex European Institute since 1999. He is Editor of the Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS), and a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Analysis of Regional Integration at Sussex and Associate Research Fellow at Chatham House. Between 2001 and 2003 he was Director of the ESRC research programme One Europe or Several? He was until December 1998, Chief Economic Adviser in the British Foreign Office and before that director of the International Economics Research Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. He has published widely on international economic issues, principally in the field of EU policy and trade policy. His main research interests are trade policy and the economics of preferential trade liberalisation, agricultural policy, EU enlargement and EMU. Recent research includes on EU bilateral trade policy, EU enlargement, on standards, harmonisation and trade policy and on EMU and Enlargement, Regionalism and the world trading system, domestic regulation and the WTO, and on trade disputes in the WTO.

Jim Rollo is a frequent commentator on EU policy, the WTO and global economic issues in the British and global media and is active in the European and international policy debate. He has been a consultant to the British Government, the European Commission and the World Bank as well as to NGOs and business.