Jodie Keane

Jodie Keane is a Senior Research Fellow with the International Economic Development Group at ODI. She leads the climate, trade, and development workstream, focusing on navigating new green trade measures and other related policy spillovers, greening trade and supply chains, and developing resilient value chains. Her areas of interest also include technology transfer, critical minerals, carbon markets, and more broadly, the interaction between the climate-trade nexus.

Jodie is a seasoned trade and development economist and project manager, having worked with most international organisations and multiple governments across the developed and developing world over the past 15 years. This includes dedicated support within a multilateral context for World Trade Organization (WTO) members related to the future of aid for trade to Least Developed Countries (LDCs). 

She holds a PhD in economics from SOAS University of London, specialising in comparative value chain studies). Additionally, she has published extensively in journals and book chapters, and edited volumes on global value chains and LDCs. Her expertise has been featured in several media outlets including the Financial Times, Monocle, The Guardian, The Conversation UK, among others.