Maria Filipa Seara e Pereira is currently a PhD student at Purdue University and a research assistant at the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP). She worked as a consultant in the World Bank’s Trade and Regional Integration Unit. Maria works mainly on topics of international trade and international development, particularly in modeling, trade policy, and the distributional effects of trade and global value chains. She has participated in several World Bank publications, including World Development Report 2020: Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains and the “Western Balkans Regular Economic Report.” Before joining the World Bank, she worked for the Embassy of Portugal in the United States as an economic affairs research assistant following the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreement and several antidumping cases. She holds a master’s degree in international policy and practice with a specialization in economics and international trade from the George Washington University and a master’s degree in political science from the Catholic University of Portugal.