Rolf Weder is a Professor of International Economics at the University of Basel (Switzerland). His research investigates the effects, driving mechanisms, and challenges of globalization as well as some aspects of the political economy of European integration. In particular, he explores topics such as home-market effects, the relationship between trade and product variety, and the distributional effects of trade on policy-making, among others.

He has always been interested in understanding the relationship between international trade and the environment. One of his recent papers studied the consequences of trade in shark fins on heterogeneous shark species, which sparked his current collaboration with Scott Taylor on the “Economics of Extinction”. He has published several books, for example, on Ricardian Trade Theory, De-Industrialization or Swiss Comparative Advantages.

Before becoming a full professor at the University of Basel in 2000, he was a postdoc and lecturer at Simon Fraser University (1991-93) and a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia (1996-98). During his career at the University of Basel, he has been Dean of Studies (2004-15) and Dean (2019-23) of the Faculty of Business and Economics.