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).
Jodie began her career in Vietnam and Cambodia working on various assignments including non-market economy issues for the World Bank (2006) in Hanoi and Cambodia (2007) with a local consultancy. Subsequently, she joined the (formerly known as) Overseas Development Institute in 2007 as a research officer, supporting the Director of Programmes on changing EU-ACP relations. In 2012, she progressed to Research Fellow, spearheading workstreams on trade and climate change and Global Value Chains.
Between 2015 and 2020, Jodie was an economic adviser within the Trade, Oceans and Natural Resources Directorate of the Commonwealth Secretariat (2015-2020), with responsibility for global advocacy on emerging trade issues and supporting global architecture. She delivered specific assignments ahead of the 2018 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting on LDCs, and Graduation and Overcoming Services Barriers (in collaboration with the City of London). She also supported the Commonwealth Trade Reviews 2015 and 2018.
She holds a PhD in economics from SOAS University of London, specialising in comparative value chain studies) and has taught seminars on Comparative Economic Growth in Africa and Asia (SOAS), and more recently, the Political Economy of Trade at the Department of International Relations, London School of Economics. 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.
