Stephen Karingi
Dr. Stephen Karingi?is currently the Director of the Regional Integration and Trade Division of the Economic Commission for Africa. Before joining the United Nations, he was a Senior Analyst and the Head of the Macroeconomics Division at the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA). Before KIPPRA, he served as a Lecturer of Economics at Egerton University.
Dr. Karingi was a recipient of the then Zolt-Gilburne Visiting Fellowship of the International Tax Programme of the Harvard Law School in 2001 and the winner of the 2013 Alan A. Powell Award in recognition of his contribution to Global Economic Analysis issues from an African perspective. Dr. Karingi was a member of the High-Level Board of Experts on the Future of Global Trade Governance. He serves in the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Trade and Industrial Development Advisory Council. He is a member of the High-Level Group on Trade on EU-Africa relations and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of African Trade.