Feature Team Members

Lolita Laperle-Forget is an Analyst of the Women, Business and the Law project, whose current work focuses on piloting a WBL subnational analysis in Nigeria. As part of the WBL team, she led regulatory and policy research on legal instruments supporting women’s participation in trade and global value chains. Lolita joined the team in January 2023. Prior to joining the World Bank, she worked at the World Trade Organization as a trade and gender officer where she promoted gender-responsive trade policies through training, legal research and tools mapping and analyzing gender provisions in free trade agreements. She holds an LL.M. in international law and a law degree from the University of Sherbrooke, Canada. Lolita speaks French and English and is conversational in Spanish.