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GTAP Events: 2025 GTAP Advisory Board Meeting

General Information
Date: June 23-24, 2025

Location: Radisson Blu Hotel & Convention Centre
KG 2 Roundabout
Kigali, Rwanda

Deliverables: PDF fileGTAP Advisory Board Report
Research Fellows
The Board approved to name the following as Research Fellows for the period of June 2025 – May 2028:

Jayson Beckman
For his contributions in promoting the GTAP Model through the impressive breadth and depth of his policy research. He has authored and co-authored over 100 hundred peer-reviewed journal articles, government reports, and other publications that utilize the GTAP Model and its variations to address questions of climate, trade, productivity, and other topics. To advance his work, Jayson often modified the model to make it better-suited for less common policy questions, with his inventions often benefiting other researchers.

Ole Boysen
For his contributions to the CGE communities, particularly related to his research on demand system and international trade. He has developed extremely relevant methods to link CGE models to other tolls, including PE models and microsimulations, has contributed to the development of econometric techniques and the development of specific R packages for econometric analysis, and this year, spearheaded the initiative to bring the Pan-African Network for Economic Analysis of Policies (PANAP) Conference Participation Grant for African Researchers into the GTAP Conference.

Emanuele Ferrari
For his contributions to data, including the EU tables currently used in GTAP, as well as a number of single-region SAMs for several African countries. Emanuele has carried out single and multi-country CGE analysis, often focusing on Africa, free trade, and agriculture, and along with Ole, plays an important role in the Pan-African Network for Economic Analysis of Policies, fostering international collaboration and capacity building.

Karen Thierfelder
For being a steady contributor to GTAP through data, models, research, and training for decades.

Luca Salvatici
For being widely recognized for his pivotal role in advancing the use of CGE models in trade policy analysis, foundational contributions to developing and applying the GTAP Model, co-developing the GTAP-VA module for global value chain analysis, and contributing to literature using the GTAP-Energy model, which he used to study carbon leakage and climate policy, and his recent work focused on developing a methodology to micro-found input-output data within the GTAP framework, as well as updating the GTAP-HS extension, which integrates GTAP with high-resolution tariff data.
Alan A. Powell Award
In recognition of his outstanding contributions to the establishment and early development of GTAP, the Center for Global Trade Analysis established the Alan A. Powell Award in 1995, which is presented each year in recognition of outstanding service on the GTAP Advisory Board. Alan Powell was the first board member at large and also a key figure in the founding of the GTAP Consortium, having traveled multiple times across the Pacific to Purdue University to lend his support in the early days of the project. Alan was insistent that the job of the board was not only to represent their individual agency’s interests, but also the broader interests of the community.

We are very pleased to announce that this year’s recipient of the Alan A. Powell Award is the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, represented by Stephen Karingi.

Regional integration is hard. Regional integration can be very beneficial. Regional integration is happening in Africa. And, the efforts of the UNECA, substantially spearheaded by Stephen, are a big reason why so much progress is being made. Alan’s legacy with GTAP enabled the UNECA and people like Stephen to have impact, and, that is what they have done, and will continue to do.

Thank you, UNECA, for your many important contributions to fostering regional integration in Africa.

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