Luke, David: - David Luke is professor in practice and strategic director at the London School of Economics' Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa, where he oversees a programme on African trade policy. He is a former director of the African Trade Policy Centre at the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), where he led the technical work on the protocols that make up the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement. His research interests include boosting intra-African trade; the AfCFTA initiative; Africa's multilateral and bilateral trade relationships; and how trade policy intersects with industrialisation, structural transformation, inclusion, gender, public health and climate change. He is a member of the Board of TradeMark Africa and of the Council of the Africa Trade Foundation.