Secretariat of the Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies (W.P.6), United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

Lorenza Jachia holds a Masters Degree from the Graduate Institute for International Studies (Geneva) and a Bachelor‟s degree from Bocconi University (Milan). She has been working at the United Nations since 1995, at first in the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and then in the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).

A trade economist, she has provided training and advisory services to negotiators of free trade area agreements and published several articles on this topic. Her research interests have more recently focused on the deep aspects of economic integration, in particular overcoming technical barriers to trade through regulatory cooperation and the harmonization of standards.

Since April 2008, she is the Secretary of the UNECE Working Party on "Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies‟, a forum for the exchange of information on developments and experiences in the areas of technical regulations, standardization, conformity assessment and related activities at the national, regional and international levels.