The Maritime Economist Magazine Spring 2015 | Page 23

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Dr. Jan Hoffmann, Chief,
Trade Facilitation
Section, UNCTAD

Dr. Jan Hoffmann works with UNCTAD in Geneva
since 2003, currently as Chief of the Trade
Facilitation Section. Jan is in charge of various
technical assistance projects and teaching
programmes, the coordination of the Review of
Maritime Transport, the LSCI, and the Transport
Newsletter. He is on the editorial/advisory boards

of MEL, MPM, INCU, and IJSTL, the committee
of the Geneva Propeller Club, and treasurer of the
Club Photo International. In 2014, Jan was elected
president of the International Association of
Maritime Economists (IAME). Before joining
UNCTAD, Jan spent 6 years with UN-ECLAC in
Santiago de Chile, and 2 years with IMO in London
and Santiago. Prior to this, Jan worked as assistant
professor, import-export agent, consultant and
seafarer. His family background is from a tramp
shipping company, where he experienced the
“flagging out” of a German-owned ship to Antigua
and Barbuda. Jan has studied in Germany, United
Kingdom and Spain, holding a PhD in Economics
from the University of Hamburg. He has three
sons and one wife.

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