Minako Morita-Jaeger is a Senior Research Fellow in International Trade of University of Sussex Business School, a Policy Research Fellow of the UK Trade Policy Observatory (UKTPO) and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy. She is an international trade policy expert who has been working for international trade policy across the globe. She studied international political economy, economics and international economic law and applies the inter-disciplinary approach for her research in order to elaborate multi-dimensional factors that shape today’s world trade. Prior to her research work at the University of Sussex and the LSE, she was intensively engaged in trade policy in practice as an Economic Affairs Officer at the UNCTAD in Geneva, a WTO services trade negotiator at the Japanese delegation in Geneva, and a Principal Trade Policy Analyst at the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) in Tokyo. Her areas of research include: Free Trade Agreements, WTO, regulatory cooperation, UK's trade policy, Indo-Pacific and trade, trade and digital governance, and trade and economic security.