Lance Thompson

Lance Thompson

Lance Thompson joined the United Nations in 2017 as Secretary to the UN Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT) and was previously Chair of this group. In 2021, he was transferred to the Regulatory Cooperation Unit and became Secretary to the Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation and Standardization Policies (WP.6) which works on quality infrastructure and barriers to trade. He also holds the responsibilities of Focal Point within the UNECE Trade Subprogramme for gender, for disability inclusion and for disaster risk reduction.

Lance Thompson has a doctorate in social anthropology from the University of Paris V, La Sorbonne, an MBA specialized in international business where he finished as valedictorian from the ESM-A business school of Paris and a Bachelor’s in French literature from Hofstra University of New York.

In his career prior to the United Nations, he worked in the private sector specialized in customs procedures around the world as well as electronic data exchange standards. He was previously on the Administration Board of the French trade facilitation body, ODASCE. He has lived and worked in the United States of America, in France and in Japan.