
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
Senior Policy Fellow
Geoeconomics, economic statecraft, global economy
German, English
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.
‘De-risking’ could ensure the EU’s new strategic industrial policy addresses some of the major global challenges facing the bloc
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