Andreas Klasen LLM MLitt DBA

Professor of International Business at Brunel University of London, and Honorary Research Associate at University of Oxford

Dr Andreas Klasen is Professor of International Business at Brunel University of London and Honorary Research Associate in the Oxford Smith School at the University of Oxford. In addition, he is a Partner at actoRx. He has served as Visiting Professor and Senior Fellow at several other universities, including Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London, the University of St.Gallen and Durham University.

His research focuses on international business, trade policy and export strategies, as well as export, development and climate finance. He has made significant contributions to academic literature, with publications such as "The Handbook of Global Trade Policy“ and contributions to works including “The Elgar Encyclopedia of Public Management“. He is a Global Solutions Initiative Fellow and regularly speaks at international conferences for organisations such as COP, G7, G20, the EU, the OECD and the WTO. He was invited to give expert evidence to the UK Parliament and have long lasting experience as an economic adviser in WTO disputes.

He advises governments, development banks, export-import banks, export credit agencies and innovation funds on industrial and climate policy, innovation and export strategies, and financing instruments. His clients include the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), the Dutch Ministry of Finance, Etihad Credit Insurance in the United Arab Emirates, the European Commission, Export Development Canada (EDC), the Finnish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment, NEXI in Japan, the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), the United Nations and the World Bank Group.

His research and professional work has been featured, for instance, by CNBC, Deutsche Welle, Forbes, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Zeit, and Impulse.

Prior to his academic career, he was a Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Germany, where he served as PwC’s Economics & Policy Leader, and as Co-Head and Managing Director of Germany’s official export credit agency. Furthermore, his career includes roles as Head of Guarantees and Export Finance at Airbus Group (ex EADS) and Vice President of the Berne Union.

He was educated at Leibniz University Hannover, Northumbria University and the University of St Andrews, studying law, business and theology and receiving my doctoral degree in finance.