EU/Europe Senior Associate
Investment Treaties, International regulatory cooperation
Positions
Since 2008 Senior Associate at SWP
Institute for Research on European Integration (IEIF), University of Bonn (Assistant Professor), European Institute for Public Administration (Lecturer)
Current Memberships/Councils
Member of the strategic advisory board of the special initaitve »Transformation of Agricultural and Food Systems« of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), member of the working group BMZ/BMEL Welternährung, member of the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (IATRC), member of The Trade and Public Policy Network (TaPP), member of the TradeExperettes, contributed as an external author to the latest report of the Scientific Advisory Council to the BMEL (WBAE) on corporate due diligence in the agricultural and food sector.
Project Lead/Expert Reports
Sustainability covered by agricultural policy (University of Bonn), Training programme of WTO negotiators from developing countries at the European Institute for Public Administration (EIPA), EU as an arctic actor (SWP), Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (Bundestag), Agricultural Policy and Impact Africa (EU Commission), Sustainability challenges of the EU-Mercosur-Agreement (report for the European Parliament)
current: Geostrategic aspects of policies on food security in the light of recent global tensions – Insights from seven countries (IATRC)
Contribution to a Research Paper 2024/RP 09, 21.06.2024, 81 Pages, pp. 49–53
Combating the Spread of an Animal-borne Disease with or without Russia
doi:10.18449/2024C23
It could become the world’s largest free trade area. As a condition for the EU’s unilateral requirements, the Mercosur countries are now demanding cooperation and trade benefits – rightly so, and it will set an example for other agreements, say Bettina Rudloff and Tobias Stoll.
The final conclusion of the EU-Mercosur Agreement has been pending for more than three years. For some EU states, the sustainability measures do not go far enough. Unilateral EU approaches such as the regulation for deforestation-free supply chains can provide relief – but they carry risks, say Bettina Rudloff and Tobias Stoll.
Ambitions, expectations, obstacles, and incentives
doi:10.18449/2023C11
Two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began, this Working Paper examines repercussions in Africa and on German Africa policy, analysing to what extent they are in continuity with trends that preceded the war and to what extent they represent a break with past patterns. Has the Ukraine war turned out to be a sea change for Africa and German Africa policy, too?
doi:10.18449/2024MTA-WP10
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, we have been witness to a humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in the Black Sea region. At the same time, another one is already looming on the horizon in many African countries. The loss of grain and food imports means that it will be more difficult for Africans to obtain these goods and, above all, pay for them. We spoke to agricultural economist Bettina Rudloff (SWP) about why food security in Africa is often dependent on imports and what options for action exist for African and international actors. She argues that we already have valuable initiatives and tools at our disposal, but we lack a strategic approach. Cooperation with so-called non-traditional humanitarian donors such as China is also an option.
doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13479
What about the Right to Food? Advice from experts at the Federal Ministry of Agriculture on implementing EU-Guidelines and this fundamental human right.
doi:10.1002/sd.2718