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Nuno Mendes dos Santos is a Private Sector Development Specialist and the Topic Lead of the International Trade team of the Business Ready Unit . He joined the team in February 2017. He works on the design and implementation of indicators on trade in goods, trade in services and digital trade. Nuno previously worked on the Trading across Borders and the Contracting with the Government topics within the Doing Business project. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, Nuno worked in the private sector, serving as the International Coordinator and the Marketing and Sales Executive at two global firms, where he was responsible for emerging markets. He holds a Master's degree in Global Political Economy from the University of Kassel, Germany, focusing on the political economy of financial regulation in European sports, and a Licentiate Degree (with honors) in Political Science and International Relations from the New University of Lisbon, Portugal. Nuno has lived on four continents and is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish, and conversant in Catalan, French, Italian, and Turkish.