Carlos Fortin is an Emeritus Fellow and Research Associate at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK and Professor at the Institute of International Studies at the University of Chile. Between 1990 and 2005 he was Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva. Previously he was Director of Programmes of the South Commission and one of the lead authors of the Commission's Final Report, The Challenge to the South (1990). He is the author of nine books and more than seventy articles in academic journals and collective volumes on globalization and development, the multilateral trade regime, and the role of the State in development.
