Agathe Demarais (FR) is a Senior Policy Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) in London. She heads ECFR’s work on geoeconomics and technology, with a special interest in global economic fragmentation, trade conflicts and economic statecraft (sanctions, export controls, investment screening measures, etc.).
Before joining ECFR, Agathe Demarais was the global forecasting director of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research arm of The Economist. She led the EIU’s global economic and geopolitical analysis, with a particular focus on trade developments, emerging markets and the US-China rivalry.
Agathe Demarais is the author of Backfire, a book on the global ripple effects of sanctions and export controls (Columbia University Press, 2022). The book draws on her experience as an economic policy advisor for the diplomatic corps of the French Treasury in Russia and Lebanon. She also previously worked in investment banking in Russia and the US. She is a regular columnist for Foreign Policy and a frequent commentator for the media. Her essays have appeared in The Economist, The Times, Foreign Affairs, Politico, Le Grand Continent, the Journal of Democracy, and World Politics Review.
Agathe Demarais holds Master’s degrees from Sciences Po Paris and Columbia University, where she was a Fulbright scholar. She is a younger generation leader of the European Leadership Network, a participant in the Franco-British Young Leaders programme and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network.