Ravindra A. Yatawara is a senior economic consultant in South Asian regional integration in the World Bank’s Macroeconomics, Trade, and Investment Global Practice. He was manager of the World Trade Indicators 2010 project and has worked on the impact of the global recession on developing countries and their policy responses to it. His research interests are in political economy of trade reform, competitiveness, trade and poverty, gender, and the interaction between trade and macroeconomic policies and regional integration. He formerly held faculty positions at Columbia University and the University of Delaware, and worked for the government of Sri Lanka. He holds a BA from Reed College and a PhD in economics from Columbia University.