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Pierre-Louis Vezina is a Professor of Economics at King's College London, where he focuses on international trade, development, and migration. With a background as a lecturer at the University of Birmingham and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, he employs natural experiments and novel datasets to tackle critical policy issues in trade and migration. Vezina holds a PhD in International Economics from the Graduate Institute of Geneva and has served as a consultant for the World Bank. His research includes the long-term effects of immigration on development, with a recent paper investigating the impacts of the Vietnamese Boat People on trade dynamics. He also examines how trade policies affect developing countries in unexpected ways, such as the influence of trade preferences and quotas on African economies. Besides his research, Vezina has been actively involved in academic publishing as an Assistant Editor for the European Economic Review and contributes to platforms like VoxEU.org. His teaching encompasses undergraduate courses in International Trade and Advanced Topics in Development Economics.
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