Alicia García-Herrero
Alicia García Herrero is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel. She specialises in emerging markets, with particular attention to Asia and Asia-European Union relations. Trade, finance and banking are the topics she covers most regularly.
She speaks English, Spanish, French, German and Italian. She can also converse in Chinese, Japanese and Portuguese.
She is the Chief Economist for Asia Pacific at French investment bank Natixis, a Board Member of AGEAS insurance group, a non-resident Senior Fellow at the East Asian Institute of the National University Singapore and Adjunct Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is a Member of the Council of the Focused Ultrasound Foundation and an advisor to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s research arm. Previously, she was Chief Economist for Emerging Markets at Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria and Head of the International Economy Division of the Bank of Spain. Alicia has served as visiting Professor at John Hopkins University, China Europe International Business School and Carlos III University. She holds a PhD in Economics from George Washington University.
Disclosure of interests
Featured work
Different routes to decarbonisation: EU carbon pricing versus China’s green tech
What can Europe learn from China’s critical-tech innovation push?
China’s rise in frontier technologies narrows its gap with the US as Europe struggles with slow replication and fragmented research
The agreement between Trump and Xi is just a truce with hidden risks
The Trump–Xi summit: less a deal, more an uneasy truce
The meeting of the US and Chinese presidents in South Korea resulted in a pragmatic but precarious agreement
All work
Newsletter
10 November 2025
Policy Brief
05 November 2025
What can Europe learn from China’s critical-tech innovation push?
China’s rise in frontier technologies narrows its gap with the US as Europe struggles with slow replication and fragmented research
Event
19 November 2025
Economic security: perspectives from EU, Japan and US
How should the EU adapt its economic security strategy given the changing transatlantic relationship?
Opinion piece
01 November 2025
First Glance
30 October 2025
The Trump–Xi summit: less a deal, more an uneasy truce
The meeting of the US and Chinese presidents in South Korea resulted in a pragmatic but precarious agreement
Podcast
29 October 2025
Paradoxical EU-China climate relations
As COP30 approaches, what is the real state of EU–China climate relations?
Dataset
16 October 2025
China economic database
Repository of what we consider to be the most relevant macroeconomic data for China and EU-China relations.
First Glance
15 October 2025
Escalating US-China rare earth tensions signal determination to decouple
The future may be parallel refining and supply systems for rare earths and associated technologies, as the US and China drift further apart
Newsletter
29 September 2025
Podcast
25 September 2025
China’s race to electrification
Is China turning into an “electrostate” — and how will that change the balance of global energy?