He successfully defended his PhD thesis in September 2016 at the Graduate Institute of Geneva, Switzerland. He completed his BA in Brandeis University, United States, and obtained his MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics in 2010. After his MSc, he worked for two years at the World Bank in Washington DC, as a Consultant in the Trade Team of the Bank’s Research Department. Aksel is a member of the Macroeconomics and International Economics (MIE) research group of TI.