Gabriel Siles-Brügge

Gabriel is a political economist with a long-standing focus on the politics of trade and investment negotiations, notably in relation to the EU and UK’s trade policies and transatlantic trade relations. He has examined the politics of economic modelling; negotiations around services/investment liberalisation and regulatory cooperation; and the governance of trade talks. He is currently working on a National Institute for Health and Care-funded research project on challenges to health promotion regulation at the WTO Technical Barriers to Trade Committee. Gabriel also co-lead a work package on the ‘Reconfiguration of transatlantic trade after Brexit’ as part of a recent Jean Monnet Network on Transatlantic Trade Politics and is a participant of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Network on Contested EU Foreign Policy in an Era of Geopolitics (EUFOG). Gabriel has been a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons International Trade Committee (2021-22), having previously served as a Parliamentary Academic Fellow (2017-19). He was also a Scientific Advisor on Trade Policy to the European Public Health Alliance (2016-24) and was recently conferred a Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Gabriel’s recent policy work includes papers on the governance of UK trade policy from a public health perspective, on UK-US trade relations and on the performativity on UK trade policy post-Brexit.