Dr. Philipp Lausberg is a Policy Analyst in the European Political Economy Programme at the European Policy Centre and teaches International Political Economy at the Université Catholique de Lille.

Before joining the EPC, he was a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Antwerp and the Hertie School Berlin, completing a doctoral thesis about EU reforms in response to the sovereign debt crisis, such as European Banking Union and reforms in European fiscal policy. He has also taught International Political Economy and International Relations at the University of Antwerp. Prior to that, he worked at the strategy consulting firm Roland Berger and in e-commerce and fintech ventures of the start-up incubator Rocket Internet in Moscow and Berlin. He also has experience as a freelance journalist focusing on Russia and Eastern Europe, having published for The Moscow Times, The Calvert Journal and Dekoder, amongst others. Philipp is fluent in German, English, French and Russian and has a basic grasp of Spanish.

He holds a PhD from the University of Antwerp on European fiscal and banking policy during the eurozone sovereign debt crisis, as well as an MSc in Russian and East European Studies and a BA in History and Politics from the University of Oxford. 

Philipp has expertise in EU economic governance, energy policy, industrial policy, the single market and the politics and economics of Russia and Eastern Europe.