Alicia García-Herrero
Alicia García Herrero is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel. She specialises in emerging markets, with a particular focus on 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
The China‑Russia asymmetric partnership: Implications for Europe
Europe’s third way on AI is easier said than done
Russia and China: The realignment of a complex partnership
The looming EU-China trade clash: Why the Commission must not go it alone
China's Dual Economy: When Strategic Ambition Hollows Out the Foundation
China economic database
Repository of what we consider to be the most relevant macroeconomic data for China and EU-China relations.
Reassessing China's role in the Middle East
A complex region, persistent assumptions and the limits of Beijing's ambitions
The Supplicant and the Sovereign
Europe needs a strategy to close the artificial intelligence compute gap
In its bid to compete with the US on AI, Europe could learn from both China and from the classic Airbus industrial policy case
China’s anti-dumping investigation on pork imports from Europe: a calibrated retaliation
The Trump-Xi summit brings more problems than solutions for Europe
The hidden meaning of the Trump-Xi meeting
Trump has played his cards before China visit. Xi holds diplomatic power
The Iran war strengthens China, but also exposes weaknesses
What the world can and can’t learn from China’s industrial policy
Beijing to push Trump on Taiwan, with potentially global consequences
President Donald Trump will be in a weak position when he travels to China in mid-May for crucial talks with Xi Jinping
China green tech and its industrial policy
China's reflation story is seductive, but wrong
Europe's trade problem with China is becoming more measurable
China is quietly armour-plating its supply chains. Brussels must take note
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External publication
11 June 2026
Opinion piece
07 June 2026
Opinion piece
03 June 2026
Event
22 June 2026
Europe’s policy options for AI in the midst of US-China strategic competition
What lessons can Europe learn from China’s AI strategy?
Opinion piece
02 June 2026
External publication
01 June 2026
Podcast
27 May 2026
Reassessing China's role in the Middle East
A complex region, persistent assumptions and the limits of Beijing's ambitions
Dataset
27 May 2026
China economic database
Repository of what we consider to be the most relevant macroeconomic data for China and EU-China relations.
Opinion piece
21 May 2026
External publication
19 May 2026