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 on Foreign Relations, based in the Berlin office. He covers geoeconomics, focusing on 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 has also been a visiting fellow at the National University of Singapore, the University of Nottingham, and the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC.
He holds a PhD in political science from Ghent University.
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In the media
I hope the next CEO’s agenda will be to really double down on making ASML’s case a European case. This is not just a matter for the Dutch government.
Tobias Gehrke on the geopolitical power struggle revolving ASML and the chip industry
The important thing is not to see it only as a raw material challenge, but as really a much broader industrial challenge over who produces the technologies of tomorrow
Tobias Gehrke on the EU’s strategy to secure European access to critical raw materials
Chinese supply capacity exceeds global demand for solar systems, lithium batteries, hydrogen electrolysers, wind turbines and probably also electric cars
Tobias Gehrke on green technologies as the next battleground
Tobias Gehrke on Germany’s dependence on China in the solar industry
Tobias Gehrke on the EU’s economic security strategy