Guntram B. Wolff
Guntram Wolff is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel. He specialises in a range of issues, including defence economics, particularly European rearmament, European governance, and the geoeconomics of trade, finance, climate policy and euro-area fiscal policy.
He speaks English, German and French.
He is a Professor of Economics at the Université libre de Bruxelles and also a fellow at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Previously, he was the director of Bruegel (2013-22) and the German Council on Foreign Relations (2022-24). He worked on the macroeconomics and governance of the euro area at the European Commission and the research department at the Bundesbank. He also worked as an external adviser to the International Monetary Fund. From 2012-16, he was a member of the French prime minister’s Conseil d’Analyse Economique. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Bonn.
His detailed CV and publications are available at www.guntramwolff.net
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Featured work
Greenland is not marginal: the US takeover threat is a strategic test for Europe
European powers should provide backing for Nuuk and Copenhagen by establishing a greater military presence in Greenland
The hidden dependency on Europe's security
Rethinking the governance and funding of European rearmament
Ukraine talks: peace progress or dead end?
How should the EU manage negotiations with Ukraine, the US and Russia?
All work
First Glance
07 January 2026
Greenland is not marginal: the US takeover threat is a strategic test for Europe
European powers should provide backing for Nuuk and Copenhagen by establishing a greater military presence in Greenland
Opinion piece
15 December 2025
External publication
01 December 2025
Podcast
26 November 2025
Ukraine talks: peace progress or dead end?
How should the EU manage negotiations with Ukraine, the US and Russia?
Dataset
07 November 2025
US Foreign Military Sales
This dataset offers detailed information on FMS notifications of transfers of military equipment from the US to foreign governments.
Working paper
07 November 2025
Understanding US foreign military sales globally since 2008: an analysis of a new dataset
The paper presents a new dataset of all US Foreign Military Sales since 2008 and analyses global trends in volumes and equipment types
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?
Newsletter
20 October 2025
Event
06 November 2025
The role of long-term investors in financing the European green transition
How can long-term savings be mobilised for the green transition?
Podcast
15 October 2025
Climate, data and complacency
Why economists need to take the costs of climate change more seriously