Nicolas Köhler-Suzuki

Nicolas Köhler-Suzuki is an advisor for trade and economic security at the Jacques Delors Institute. His work is at the intersection of trade policy and economic diplomacy, with a particular focus on the European economic security agenda, EU-China and EU-India relations, EU-CPTPP cooperation, WTO reform, and digital trade. He has authored and co-authored policy briefs, reports, and articles, including several publications with Pascal Lamy, former Director-General of the World Trade Organization and former European Commissioner for Trade.

He has designed, co-led, and facilitated policy dialogues on the European automotive sector, Franco-German and Franco-British cooperation on economic security, and EU–CPTPP cooperation. He also organises a trade policy event series jointly hosted by the Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) and the Jacques Delors Institute. His commentary has appeared in outlets including the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Bloomberg, POLITICO, Al Jazeera, France 24, Deutschlandfunk, Le Figaro, and Euractiv.

Nicolas also leads the trade policy consultancy International Trade Intelligence. He previously held roles at the European Commission in Brussels, the German Bundestag in Berlin, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Lilongwe, and the United Nations (UNCTAD) in Geneva.

As a lecturer in the Executive Education programme at Sciences Po, he teaches courses on economic security and India’s evolving role in the global order. He holds a BA in Politics, Economics and Law from the University of Münster, and completed part of his undergraduate studies at McGill University. He earned an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge, where he was also a doctoral candidate with a dissertation on the economic and political determinants of India’s trade agreements. His working languages are English, French, and German.