Lauge Poulsen is Professor of International Relations & Law and Deputy Head of the School of Public Policy, University College London.
Poulsen is co-chair of OECD's inter-governmental work programme on investment treaties, where he leads discussions on investment protection and climate change. He serves as Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons' International Trade Committee and leads Whitehall's advanced trade policy training programme. Poulsen was adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 2017 to 2020 and was awarded an OBE in the 2022 Queen's New Year Honours list for services to UK trade policy. His book Bounded Rationality and Economic Diplomacy (Cambridge University Press) won the International Studies Association's inaugural prize for best book in international political economy and his second book, The Political Economy of the Investment Treaty Regime (Oxford University Press; with Bonnitcha and Waibel), is one of the leading textbooks on international investment policy. Before joining UCL, Poulsen was a postdoctoral fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, and he has been a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution's Economic Studies Division and Melbourne Law School. He is an editorial board member of several journals, including the Journal of International Economic Law. |
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