Daria Taglioni is Manager, Trade and International Integration, Development Research Group. She joined the World Bank Group in 2011 and previously worked at the European Central Bank (ECB) and at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). She has published in the American Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, and other scholarly journals. She authored various books on international trade. She is Italian and holds a PhD in International Economics from the Graduate Institute, Geneva.