Dr. Jan HOFFMANN
Dr. Jan HOFFMANN
Chief, Trade Logistics Branch, DTL, UNCTAD
Coordinator, Review of Maritime Transport
President, International Association of Maritime Economists (2014-2018)
Switzerland
Jan joined UNCTAD in 2003 and was appointed Chief of the organization’s Trade Logistics Branch in 2016. The Branch is in charge of various multilateral transport and trade facilitation capacity building programmes, as well as regional and national projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Jan created and co-edits the quarterly UNCTAD “Transport and Trade Facilitation Newsletter”, is co-author and coordinator of the annual UNCTAD “Review of Maritime Transport”, initiated the UNCTAD “Maritime Country Profiles”, and created and produces the annual “Liner Shipping Connectivity Index”. Previously, Jan spent six years with the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago de Chile, and two years with the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London and Santiago. Prior to this, he held part time positions as assistant professor, import-export agent, seafarer, translator and consultant. For eight years, he also worked part time for the family tramp shipping business “Hoffmann Shipping”, based in Horneburg, Germany and registered in Antigua and Barbuda. Jan has studied in Germany, United Kingdom and Spain, and holds a doctorate degree in Economics from the University of Hamburg. His work has resulted in numerous UN and peer reviewed publications, lectures and technical missions, the ECLAC International Transport Data Base, and various electronic newsletters. Jan is member of AJSL, CPI, IJSTL, INCU, JST, MEL, MPM, and the Propeller Club of Geneva. In 2014, Jan was elected president of the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME), until September 2018. He has three sons and one wife.