Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso holds a PhD in International Economics from the University of Birmingham, England. She is Professor at the University Jaume I in Spain and chair of the Social Sciences Economics and Law cluster of the Enlight Network at the University of Göttingen (Germany). She is board member of the International Network for Economic Research (INFER) and of the Centre for Global Migration Studies at the University of Goettingen and research fellow at the Center for Statistics from the same university. She is also member of the Institute of International Economics (University Jaume I) since 1995. She has advised the World Bank, the OECD, the Commonwealth, the German Ministry of Development and Cooperation, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Spanish Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure. Her fields of research include international economics, environmental economics and development economics. She is the author of three books and of numerous articles in international journals, including the Journal of International Economics, the Review of International Economics, Ecological Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics and Journal of Development Economics. Her current research interests are in the areas of development economics, deep and comprehensive trade agreements, migration and remittances, networks and trade and sustainable global value chains.