Strategy and risk: How to make the Green Deal Industrial Plan a geoeconomic success
‘De-risking’ could ensure the EU’s new strategic industrial policy addresses some of the major global challenges facing the bloc
Experts & Staff
Tobias Gehrke
Senior Policy Fellow
Areas of expertise
Geoeconomics, economic statecraft, global economy
Languages
German, English
Biography
Tobias Gehrke is a senior policy fellow at the European Council for Foreign Relations, based in the Berlin office. He leads ECFR’s Geoeconomics Initiative. His area of focus includes economic security, European economic strategy, and great power competition in the global economy.
Before joining ECFR, Gehrke was a research fellow with the Egmont Royal Institute in Brussels from 2017 to 2022, where he covered geoeconomics. He was also a visiting fellow at the National University of Singapore, Nottingham University, and the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington D.C.
He holds a PhD in Political Science from Ghent University.
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A united front: How the US and the EU can move beyond trade tensions to counter China
The Inflation Reduction Act may reduce US dependency on China, but it also risks harming the transatlantic relationship. European governments must position themselves as critical allies for the US in order to preserve their economies – and effectively counter China’s geo-economic challenge.
In the media
Our sanctions are not as harsh as we think
Tobias Gehrke on the loopholes in the sanctions against Russia
Tobias Gehrke comments on Turkey’s trading with Russia
Russia and Ukraine, together with their Western supporters, are “in a military-industrial battle of attrition”
Tobias Gehrke on how sanctions could affect the Russian military industry
We Europeans are adapting to the geo-economic mentality
Tobias Gehrke comments on the EU industrial policy
This race is unlikely to last long or be large enough to counter the renewable energy boom
Tobias Gehrke thinks that finding alternative suppliers of fossil fuels to make up for the decoupling from Russia is a short-term trend