FIIA FORUM 2020: Towards a Geoeconomic World Order: The Emerging Tech and Trade Wars

Thomas Wright is the Director of the Center on the United States and Europe and a Senior Fellow in the Project on International Order and Strategy at the Brookings Institution. He is also a contributing writer for The Atlantic and a nonresident fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. Dr Wright works on great power competition, Brexit and the future of the EU, economic interdependence, Donald Trump’s worldview, and US foreign policy. Dr Wright has a doctorate from Georgetown University. He is coauthoring a book on the international response to COVID-19, which will be published by St Martin’s Press in 2021.

Victor do Prado is the Director of the Council and Trade Negotiations Committee at the WTO, where he assists the preparations for WTO Ministerial Conferences and oversees the work of the General Council and the Dispute Settlement Body. Mr do Prado previously served as deputy Chief of Staff to Director-General Pascal Lamy (2005-2012). He is a former Brazilian diplomat. He holds a Degree in Law from the University of São Paulo and a master’s degree in international Relations from the Brazilian Diplomatic Academy.

Carla Norrlof is Visiting Research Professor at FIIA, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, Senior Fellow of Massey College and a Research Associate of the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva). She researches International Relations (IR) and International Political Economy (IPE) with a special focus on great powers and liberal international order. Norrlof’s most recent work is “Raison de l’Hegemonie: The Costs & Benefits of Hegemony” with William C.Wohlforth (Security Studies) and “The Global Monetary Order and the Liberal Order Debate” with others (International Studies Perspectives).

Mikael Wigell is Programme Director of the Global Security research programme at FIIA and Adjunct Professor at Tampere University. He has held Visiting Fellowships at Oxford University and the Torcuato di Tella University, Buenos Aires, as well as a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Academy of Finland. He earned his PhD from the London School of Economics and he is a former president of the Finnish International Studies Association. His latest book is the edited volume Geo-economics and Power Politics in the 21st Century (Routledge 2018).

Mika Aaltola is the Director of FIIA. Dr Aaltola is also a professor of International Relations at Tallinn University, Estonia, and holds the rank of docent at Tampere University. He has been a visiting fellow at Cambridge University, Sciences Po (CERI), and Johns Hopkins as well as a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota. His areas of expertise include the US global role, dynamics of power politics, and Finnish foreign policy. His latest published monograph is Democratic Vulnerability and Autocratic Meddling – The “Thucydidean Brink” in Regressive Geopolitical Competition (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2021).