Juan Mejino-López
Juan Mejino-López was a Research Analyst at Bruegel, working on topics including defence, banking and financial literacy.
His research has covered European rearmament, corporate governance, environmental policy and institutional management. His master’s thesis studied the relation between automation and offshoring in Spain, as well as automation impacts on the Spanish labour market.
Juan speaks Spanish, English, French and Catalan.
He had more than 3 years of professional experience working on public policy in the academic and consultancy sectors before joining Bruegel. He studied Economics (BSc) at the University of Salamanca, with a one-year Erasmus exchange at KU Leuven. He was granted a scholarship from Ramón Areces Foundation to pursue a MSc in Economics at the University of Warwick.
Featured work
Europe’s dependence on US foreign military sales: evidence for policy makers from a new database
US Foreign Military Sales
This dataset offers detailed information on FMS notifications of transfers of military equipment from the US to foreign governments.
Pivot to Asia, Europe or the Homeland? 18 Years of US Foreign Military Sales
The hidden dependency on Europe's security
All work
External publication
30 March 2026
External publication
05 March 2026
Dataset
12 March 2026
US Foreign Military Sales
This dataset offers detailed information on FMS notifications of transfers of military equipment from the US to foreign governments.
External publication
31 January 2025
Opinion piece
15 December 2025
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
Policy Brief
13 October 2025
Europe’s dependence on US foreign military sales and what to do about it
Europe’s reliance on US arms raises autonomy concerns, as security worsens and leaders aim to cut strategic and technological dependence
Report
20 June 2025
Report
28 May 2025
Analysis
18 December 2024
The US defence industrial base can no longer reliably supply Europe
Europe has long relied on US weapons but the US military industrial base faces constraints and its production may be redirected elsewhere