David Luke is professor in practice and strategic director at the London School of Economics’ Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa, where he oversees a programme on African trade policy. He is a former director of the African Trade Policy Centre at the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), where he led the technical work on the protocols that make up the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement. His research interests include boosting intra-African trade; the AfCFTA initiative; Africa’s multilateral and bilateral trade relationships; and how trade policy intersects with industrialisation, structural transformation, inclusion, gender, public health and climate change. He is a member of the Board of TradeMark Africa and of the Council of the Africa Trade Foundation.Vinaye Dey Ancharaz is an independent consultant on trade and development. He was a senior lecturer at the University of Mauritius and has worked at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development in Geneva and the African Development Bank. He has consulted with several organisations, including the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the United Nations, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Indian Ocean Commission. He holds a first-class BSc (Hons) in economics from the University of Mauritius, MSc and PhD degrees in international economics from Brandeis University (USA) and an MBA from Imperial College London. He is a fellow of the Chartered Management Institute in the UK.William Davis is an economist who has worked on international trade for over 15 years mainly focused on Africa, with the UK government, United Nations and various think tanks. An Oxford University graduate, he has over 30 publications in international trade. He is currently a visiting fellow at the LSE Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa.Jamie MacLeod is an economics affairs officer at the United Nations Office of the High Representative for Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries, and Small Island States in New York and a former policy fellow at the LSE Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa. His career spans more than a decade focusing on trade policies and negotiations, with a particular interest on the African continent, including at the UN Economic Commission for Africa, the International Trade Centre, the World Bank and the Ghana Ministry of Trade and Industry.Olawale Ogunkola is professor of economics at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. He has published and consulted extensively on trade and regional integration in Africa. He has been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, a visiting lecturer at the National University of Lesotho, a resource person at the World Trade Organization’s regional trade policy course and a visiting professor at LSE.Colette Van der Ven is an international trade lawyer specialising in sustainable development. As founding director of TULIP Consulting, Colette advises the public sector on legal and policy issues at the trade–environment–development nexus. She is also a visiting lecturer in international law at the Graduate Institute in Geneva. Previously, Colette worked as an international trade lawyer at Sidley Austin’s international dispute settlement practice. She holds a juris doctor from Harvard Law School, and a master’s in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.