Verena Tandrayen-Ragoobur is an Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Mauritius. She is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. Her research areas focus on international and development economics. She works on social protection, social policies, labour market, trade, climate change, gender and poverty. She is currently heading the Pole of Applied Socio-Economic Research and Analysis at the University of Mauritius (http://www.uom.ac.mu/research/asera/). She is also the co-chair of the WTO Chairs Programme at the University of Mauritius. She has been involved in various research projects internationally and locally.