Axel Marx

Axel Marx is Deputy Director at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, an interdisciplinary research center of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the KU Leuven.

He has managed over 70 funded research projects including multi-team and international FP7 and Horizon 2020 projects, and acted as a consultant to several national and international organizations including the European Parliament, the European Commission, the Committee of the Regions, International Labour Organization, International Trade Centre, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards, UNCTAD, OECD, IDEA, Worldbank, the Belgian, Dutch and German Governments and several private actors.

His academic publications (200+) have appeared in five dozen leading international peer reviewed journals and 10 languages. His research interests include voluntary sustainability standards, sustainable trade, human/labor rights, global governance, corporate social responsibility and EU trade policy.

He is currently the co-chair of the Academic Advisory Council of the United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards, a member of the Evidensia Research Council, and a member of the steering committee of the ILO Labour Provisions in Trade Agreements Hub.

As a guest lecturer, he taught inter alia Master and executive training at European University Institute, China University of Political Science and Law, and several other European universities. He recently developed a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Sustainable Trade and sustainability certification on the EdX-platform.