Manfred Elsig
Manfred Elsig is and Professor of International Relations at the World Trade Institute of the University of Bern, Switzerland. He was director of the Swiss National Science Foundation -funded from 2013 until the project ended in 2017. He is co-founder of the collaborative . He has published more than 30 articles in international peer-reviewed journals.
Professor Elsig studied political science at the universities of Bern and Bordeaux. He received his PhD in 2002 from the University of Zurich with a dissertation on European Union trade policy. His research focuses primarily on the politics of international trade, regional trade agreements, European trade policy, international organisations, US–EU relations, and private actors in global politics.Employment history
Assistant Professor of International Relations, World Trade Institute, University of Bern,
Post-doctoral fellow, World Trade Institute, Bern and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Teaching fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science
Personal advisor, Minister of Economy of Canton Zurich
Public policy expert, UBS financial services group
Trade diplomat, Swiss Federal Office for Foreign Economic AffairsSelected books
