Johan (Nanno) is Chief of the International Trade Unit within the Division of International Trade and Integration of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. His main areas of research and technical assistance are on the region’s participation in global value chains in general and services in particular, digital trade and e-commerce, and sustainable trade with a focus on the internationalization of SMEs, gender equality, and circular economy.

He worked as an economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in the team for Latin America of the Economics Department (2002-2005) and as a researcher at the French Centre for Prospective and International Studies (CEPII) (1996 -2002). He has a Master's and PhD in economics from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Mr. Mulder is also co-founder and President of the Latin American network for research and policy on services. From January to March 2017, he was a visiting researcher at the Institute of Social Studies in the Hague.