Marcelo Olarreaga is Professor of Economics at the University of Geneva, Scientific Advisor at CEPII in Paris, and Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London.

He is currently directing a research project on the labor market impacts of trade reforms in developing countries funded by the Research for Development program of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). Before joining the University of Geneva he worked in the Research Department of the World Bank, as well as in the Economics Research Division of the World Trade Organization.

He has also been invited professor at CERDI (France), the Graduate Institute (Switzerland), INSEAD (France), Institute CLAEH (Uruguay), SciencePo-Paris (France), Universidad de la República (Uruguay) and the University of Antwerp (Belgium). He holds an MA from the University of Sussex, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Geneva.