Iana Dreyer

iana.dreyer@ecipe.org

Office: +32 (0)2 289 13 52

Areas of expertise

• EU trade policy
• Bilateral trade agreements
• Russian economy
• EU-Russian/CIS economic relations
• EU-China/Asia trade

Iana Dreyer joined ECIPE as Trade Policy Analyst in 2007. Iana's current research focuses on EU-Asian and EU-Eurasian commercial relations. Her core interests lie in Russia’s emergence in the world economy, EU-China relations and Indian trade policies. She has related expertise in EU trade policies towards emerging markets, energy issues and information technology trade.

 

She holds an MSc in Politics of the World Economy from the London School of Economics where she specialised in international trade policy, regional trade agreements and Central American trade policies. She also holds a Master's Degree from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. Before joining ECIPE she worked two years in London for the Financial Times Group as emerging market researcher. Iana has extensive international experience, ranging from a childhood in Central America to contributing to a school book in Southern India. She is fluent in English, French and German, speaks good Spanish and is currently learning Russian.

 

 

ECIPE Publications

• Vested and Invested Interests: The Role of Investment Protection in EU-Russia Relations (ECIPE Policy Brief No. 02/2010)
• Beyond Geopolitics - The Case for a Free Trade Accord between Europe and Taiwan (ECIPE Occasional Paper No. 03/2010)
• The Quest for Gas Market Competition (ECIPE Occasional Paper No. 1/2010)
• Trade in Information Technology Goods: Adapting the ITA to 21st Century Technological Change (ECIPE Working Paper No. 06/2008)
• Russian Commercial Policies and the European Union – Can Russia be Anchored in a Legal International Economic Order? (ECIPE Working Paper No. 05/2008 )
• An EU-China trade dialogue: a new policy framework to contain deteriorating trade relations (ECIPE Policy Brief No. 3/2008)
• Kazakhstan and the World Economy: An Assessment of Kazakhstan’s Trade Policy and Pending Accession to the WTO (ECIPE Jan Tumlir Essay No. 01/2008)

Speeches and Presentations

• The scope for EU policymaking to shape a new, institutionalized economic relationship with Russia (Speech at Carnegie Endowment conference on EU Russia relations, 26 May 2010)
• Information Technology Agreement, Non-tariff Barriers, EU-Asia ICT trade (Presentation at ECIPE Seminar on Non Tariff Barriers in Information Technology Trade, September 24, 2009 )
• The Current Economic Crisis and Prospects for EU-China Commercial Negotiations (Speech at the Brussels Institute for Contemporary China Studies, 6 April 2009)
• EU Trade Policy – for the benefit of rich and poor EU partners (Presentation by Iana Dreyer November 25, 2008 )
• EU-Russian Commercial Relations, preparing the ground for new relations after 2008 (ECIPE conference November 20, 2008: Can EU-Russian Commercial Relations be Normalized?)
• EU approaches in its trade relations to China (Presentation at EPC Think Tank Round Table 22 October 2008)
• Challenges for the EU-China High Level Economic and Trade Mechanism (Presentation at the Chinese Mission to the EU - 5 March 2008 )
• EU-China Commercial Relations (Presentation at the Chinese Mission to the EU, 11 December 2007)

Articles, Opinion and Commentary

• Reglobalizing Taiwan (Razeen Sally and Iana Dreyer on “re-globalizing” Taiwan in the Wall Street Journal)
• A vicious gas cycle (Iana Dreyer responds to Gazprom in the European Voice)
• The Battle of the BITs (Iana Dreyer writes on the stakes at hand for Europe's BITs in Al Majalla)
• Transatlantic Trade: Now is the Time for Audacity (Iana Dreyer comments on current US and EU trade policies in European Affairs)
• Heading towards a battle of the BITs (Iana Dreyer reports on Europe’s investment treaties in FDI Magazine)

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Media Coverage

• Yanukovych Says Ukraine Seeks 'Non-Aligned' EU Ties (Iana Dreyer comments on the new Ukrainian president’s foreign policy in Bloomberg)
• Kazakhstan Wants to Break Free (Iana Dreyer comments on EU Kazakh trade in the European Energy Review)
• EU Shoe Tariff Extension Predetermined (Iana Dreyer comments on antidumping tariffs against Chinese and Vietnamese footwear in the EU Observer)
• China Appeals WTO Ruling on Book, Film, Music Imports (Iana Dreyer comments on China’s appeal to the WTO’s book, film, music ruling in Bloomberg)
• EU, China Trade Talks Need New Framework (Fredrik Erixon and Iana Dreyer comment EU-China trade politics in Dow Jones )