Jacques Pelkmans (Ph.D. in economics, Tilburg Un.y)  is an Associate Senior Fellow at CEPS. He is also a visiting professor at the College of Europe (Bruges) and visiting professor at the Economics department of Goethe University, Frankfurt.

Expert in European economic integration, ASEAN economic integration, EU-Asia trade and economic relations (esp.  with ASEAN  and China)  and international trade and investment. He has been advisor to the European Commission, the OECD, the World Bank, UNIDO, ASEAN and governments in Europe and East Asia. His current research interests include the EU single market, EU market regulation, economic regionalism, EU trade policy and the economics and market access aspects of technical standards and technical barriers to trade. 

Professor Pelkmans has been a regular contributor to economic and policy-oriented journals, is the author of several books (including a worldwide textbook on economic integration, also translated in Chinese and Japanese) and (co-)editor of a handful of other books in this field. Jacques Pelkmans was a member of the Cecchini Group writing its well-known report on the completion of the EU internal market in 1988. Alone or with colleagues, he is the author of many reports to the European Parliament on (aspects of) the EU single market (both of goods and of services) as well as on EU trade policy. Jacques Pelkmans was the co-chair of the High Level Group incorporating both parties preparing a detailed report (2011) for Commissioner De Gucht and Minister Pangestu on the design and details of the Indonesia/EU negotiations on a FTA. In 1990/91, Dr. Pelkmans was one of the five members of the Eminent Persons Group of ASEAN directly advising the political leaders of ASEAN on the deepening and reform of ASEAN, in particular its free trade area (AFTA). 

Professor Pelkmans is a co-author of two very recent reports to the European Parliament on the EU single market. One is called ‘Legal obstacles in Member States to Single Marker Rules’  (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2020/658189/IPOL_STU(2020)658189_EN.pdf) November 2020, with an emphasis on barriers encountered by business ;  and a report expected to be published around 19 February 2021 by the EP entitled ‘The impact of COVID-19  on the EU internal market’.