André Sapir is a Belgian economist and professor at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics & Management[1] (Université Libre de Bruxelles).

Sapir holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins University, where he studied with Bela Balassa.

[2] He then served until 2009 in the group of Economic Policy Advisors to Prodi's successor José Manuel Barroso.

He is a member of the King Baudouin Foundation’s board of trustees and chairman of its selection committee for the King Baudouin International Development Prize; and of the International Scientific Advisory Councils of the Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies (WIIW), of Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales (CEPII) in Paris, and of Fundacion Ideas in Madrid.

He is also a fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and a founding editorial board member of the World Trade Review, published by Cambridge University Press and the World Trade Organization.