Agathe Demarais

Agathe Demarais is a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Her areas of interest include the global economy, US-EU-China economic relations and economic statecraft. She heads ECFR’s geoeconomics and tech team, and co-leads ECFR’s flagship Re:Order project, exploring emerging visions of the global order, as well as the interplay between economic might and geopolitical influence.

Before joining ECFR, Demarais was the global forecasting director of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research arm of The Economist. She led the EIU’s global economic and geopolitical analysis, with a particular focus on trade developments, emerging markets and economic statecraft.

Demarais is the author of “Backfire”, a book on the global ripple effects of US sanctions and export controls. The book draws on her experience as an economic policy adviser for the diplomatic corps of the French treasury in Russia and Lebanon. She also previously worked in investment banking in Russia and the US.

Outside ECFR, Demarais is a visiting professor at the College of Europe and a permanent adviser to the policy planning unit of the French MFA. She is also a regular columnist for Foreign Policy and a frequent commentator for the media. Her essays have appeared in Foreign Affairs, The Economist, the Financial Times, the Times, the Journal of Democracy, Politico and Le Grand Continent.

Demarais holds master’s degrees from Sciences Po Paris and Columbia University, where she was a Fulbright scholar. She is a younger generation leader of the European Leadership Network, a participant in the Franco-British Young Leaders programme, and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network.