Mia Mikic
Mia Mikic is a trade economist with a keen interest in sustainable development and with an extensive track record and experience in academia and international civil service. She is a Board member of the Friends of Multilateralism Group and of the Board of Advisors for the Trade Policy Research Forum, Advisor at Large for the Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT), Research Fellow at the Waikato Management School, The University of Waikato, New Zealand and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Euro-Asian Studies, the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb. Mia is part of the Global Advisory Council of the Centre for a Smart Future, Sri Lanka, and a member of the Advisory Board or the Center on Inclusive Trade and Development, Georgetown Law, USA. She provides advisory services in a broad area of trade, development and global governance.
Previously, she was a Director, Trade, Investment and Innovation Division in United Nations ESCAP (2017-2021), and help other functions in the UN (2005-2017). She was also Head of the Department of Economic Theory, Professor of International Economics and Director of Economic and Business International Program at the University of Zagreb (2001-2005), and Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland (1988-2005).
Articles
Mia Mikic & Sherry M. Stephenson
What are logistics? From the perspective of late 2022 asking this question may appear ridiculous. The term has been used so much in all aspects of our lives for the last three years that we feel we can intimately relate to it. But do we know what it actually is? The APEC region took the lead in 2022 in pushing forward a better understanding of the important but often underappreciated logistics activities to examine their role in moving essential goods across borders.