Thijs Vandemoortele currently works for Caterpillar Distribution Services Europe and is a senior research affiliate with the LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance at KU Leuven. Previously he was a visiting researcher at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and at the University of California, Berkeley. His research has been published in The World Trade Review, The World Economy, the European Review of Agricultural Economics, and the Review of Development Economics.