Luca Léry Moffat
Luca worked at Bruegel as a research analyst until March 2025. He completed his BA Honours degree in economics and Russian studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
Prior to joining Bruegel, Luca worked as a research intern at the Economic Policy Research Centre in Kampala, Uganda, where he studied the impact of Uganda’s oil and gas exploration on the local agricultural sector. He also worked as a research assistant with professors from McGill University and the University of Saint-Gallen towards constructing a harmonized world labour force survey. These datasets were used to study multiple issues, one example being barriers to structural change out of agriculture due to low, female bargaining power.
Luca is a dual UK and French citizen and is an English native speaker, fluent in French and has good command of Russian.
Featured work
Russian foreign trade tracker
Tracking Russian trade using data from the EU, China, the US, South Korea, Japan, India, the UK, Turkey, Switzerland, Norway, Brazil and Kazakhstan
Finance for nature: how to improve funding for the protection of biodiversity
This policy brief summarises the options and outlines the main considerations in finding better ways to value nature
Closing the loop: the case for a circular EU economy
Why moving to a circular economy is essential in the fight against climate change
Extra time for deforestation: lessons for future EU environmental legislation
This Policy Brief sets out why the deforestation regulation has the right objectives but needed better design and preparation for implementation
All work
Dataset
03 March 2026
Russian foreign trade tracker
Tracking Russian trade using data from the EU, China, the US, South Korea, Japan, India, the UK, Turkey, Switzerland, Norway, Brazil and Kazakhstan
Policy Brief
19 December 2024
Finance for nature: how to improve funding for the protection of biodiversity
This policy brief summarises the options and outlines the main considerations in finding better ways to value nature
Podcast
27 November 2024
Closing the loop: the case for a circular EU economy
Why moving to a circular economy is essential in the fight against climate change
Policy Brief
14 November 2024
Extra time for deforestation: lessons for future EU environmental legislation
This Policy Brief sets out why the deforestation regulation has the right objectives but needed better design and preparation for implementation
External publication
23 October 2024
Policy Brief
12 September 2024
A European circular single market for economic security and competitiveness
This Policy Brief gives an overview of the environmental and economic cases for Europe to improve resource efficiency
Policy Brief
22 July 2024
The changing dynamics of the Western Balkans on the road to European Union membership: an update
This paper concentrates on economic and social convergence in the region and the economic and institutional aspects of EU accession
Report
11 April 2024
The impact on the European Union of Ukraine’s potential future accession
This report evaluates the impact on the EU of a possible EU accession of Ukraine, focusing on economic consequences and institutional developments.
Analysis
21 March 2024
Emerging countries have replaced most of Russia’s lost trade with advanced economies
Russian trade overall seems to have suffered little from sanctions; meanwhile, medicine and food trade continues with sanctioning countries
Policy Brief
07 March 2024
Ukraine’s path to European Union membership and its long-term implications
The war complicates the accession process, but Ukraine can work progressively towards meeting the entry conditions