Mia Mikic

Director at Trade, Investment and Innovation Division, United Nations ESCAP

HRF Publication: The Home in the Digital Age
Experts Meeting: The Home in a Digital Age 
Working Paper | The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Future of Work

Dr Mikic is Director, Trade, Investment and innovation Division in United Nations ESCAP. She also coordinates the Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT), an open network of research and academic institutions and think-tanks in the Asia-Pacific region. Previously, she was Professor of International Economics at the University of Zagreb, and Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland. She is the author of International Trade (Macmillan, 1998), co-author of Trade Statistics in Policymaking – A handbook of commonly used trade indices and indicators (United Nations, 2009). She led a development of the Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Agreements Database of ESCAP which monitors trade performance of the trade agreements for the regional economies. She oversees preparation of Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Report, a flagship publication of ESCAP in area of trade and investment. Her current work focuses on the impacts of preferential and multilateral trade liberalization, services trade liberalization, non-tariff protection, Aid for Trade and evidence-based policymaking in trade. She has masters in International Business from the St. Mary’s College of California and a doctorate in Economics from the University of Zagreb.