Agnes Ghibuţiu is senior scientific researcher at the Institute for World Economy (IWE), where she works since 1969. She graduated from the Faculty for Germanic Languages of the Bucharest University, as well as the Faculty for International Economic Relations of the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest. She obtained her PhD in economics in 1999 from the National Institute for Economic Research of the Romanian Academy, with the doctoral thesis entitled: “Services in the context of economic development.” Areas of specialization include: international trade, global production networks, WTO and the multilateral trading system, trade policy, the services economy.
Ms. Ghibuţiu has coordinated numerous studies associated with the basic research programs of the Romanian Academy, respectively the IWE. She has published as author and co-author an impressive number of studies, books and articles both at home and abroad, and presented scientific papers at international conferences in the US and different European and Asian countries, particularly on services. Her seminal book on “Services and Development. From Prejudices Towards New Insights” (Expert Publishing House, Bucharest, 2000, 366 pp.) has been awarded the Romanian Academy Prize “Virgil Madgearu” in 2002. She has participated in numerous national and international research projects, and also provided consultancy on behalf of HWWA in Hamburg, Institut für Weltwirtschaft/Universität Kiel, Freie Universität Berlin, University of Ljubljana/Faculty of Social Sciences, and University of Economics/Faculty of Trade in Bratislava. Alongside her work as a researcher, Ms. Ghibuţiu is currently in charge with editing the quarterly IWE ”Journal of Global Economics”.
