Acknowledgements

The World Trade Report 2016 was prepared under the general responsibility of Xiaozhun Yi, WTO Deputy Director-General, and Robert Koopman, Director of the Economic Research and Statistics Division. This year the report was coordinated by Marc Bacchetta and Cosimo Beverelli. The authors of the report are Marc Auboin, Marc Bacchetta, Cosimo Beverelli, Barbara D’Andrea, Christophe Degain, Alexander Keck, Andreas Maurer, José-Antonio Monteiro, Coleman Nee, Roberta Piermartini and Robert Teh (Economic Research and Statistics Division); and Antonia Carzaniga, Joscelyn Magdeleine, Juan Marchetti, Lee Tuthill and Ruosi Zhang (Trade in Services and Investment Division).