Edward Hunter Christie

Edward Hunter Christie is a Senior Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs. He previously worked as a researcher at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (2002–2010), focusing notably on analyses and modelling of international trade and investment, and on analyses pertaining to economic security and security of energy supply. He then worked as Senior Economic Adviser and Chief Economist for a major European industry association (2010-2014) and subsequently as NATO’s Defence Economist (2014-2019), before moving into the field of innovation policy.

As Deputy Head of NATO’s Innovation Unit, he drafted the Alliance’s first internal White Papers on Artificial Intelligence and on Autonomous Systems, before acting as the lead consultant for NATO’s first-ever Artificial Intelligence Strategy in 2021.

He then joined the geoeconomics research team at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (2022-) where he has focused on applied research on corporate geoeconomics and on the measurement and modelling of geoeconomic power.

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