Katinka Barysch, Deputy Director

Katinka Barysch is the deputy director, and she also runs the CER's research programmes on Russia and Turkey. She has written extensively about economic and political transition in Central and Eastern Europe and about all aspects EU enlargement. She also works on European economic reforms, globalisation, energy questions and EU institutional change.

Katinka has acted as an advisor to the EU Select Committee of the House of Lords, the World Economic Forum and other organisations, as well as EU governments and a number of financial institutions and business federations. She regularly comments on European developments in the media, and she was twice nominated for the Rybczynski Prize of economic writing by the Society of Business Economists.

Katinka joined the CER in July 2002. Before that, she was an analyst and editor for the Economist Intelligence Unit in London, specialising in Eastern Europe and Russia. Until 1998, she worked as a consultant in Brussels, where she was also involved in formulating the European Commission's strategy towards the East European candidate countries.

Katinka gained an MSc in International Political Economy with distinction from the London School of Economics and a BA in Political Science, Economics and Law from Munich University. She speaks German, French and some Russian.

Main areas of expertise: EU enlargement, Russia, Turkey, energy, economics.


CER publications:

• The EU's new Russia policy starts at home
  (briefing note, June 2008)
  
  
• Can Europe and China shape a
  new world order?
  (pamphlet with Charles Grant, May 2008)
  
  
• Turkey's turmoil, the EU's reaction
  (CER blog, 10 April 2008)
  
  
• A joint response to the credit crunch
  (CER blog, 19 March 2008)
  
  
• The Lisbon scorecard VIII:
  Is Europe ready for an economic storm?
  (pamphlet with Simon Tilford and Philip Whyte, February 2008)
  
  
• Kosovo – the economic dilemma
  (CER blog, 29 February 2008)
  
  
• Turkey's role in European energy security
  (essay by Katinka Barysch, December 2007)
  
  
• China is losing its EU friends
  (CER blog, 29 November 2007)
  
  
• EU-Russia: no more ambitions
  (CER blog, 1 November 2007)
  
  
• The CER guide to the Reform Treaty
  (briefing note with Hugo Brady, October 2007)
  
  
• What should Europe do about sovereign wealth funds?
  (bulletin article with Philip Whyte,
  October/November 2007)
  
  
• What Europeans think about Turkey and why
  (briefing note, August 2007)
  
  
• Poland's poll and the EU treaty
  (CER blog, 24 August 2007)
  
  
• Where next for Turkey?
  (CER blog with Charles Grant, 24 July 2007)
  
  
• Russia, realism and EU unity
  (policy brief, July 2007)
  
  
• Reciprocity will not secure Europe's energy
  (bulletin article, August/September 2007)
  
  
• Portugal's presidency
  (briefing note by Katinka Barysch, July 2007)
  
  
• Why Europeans don't have babies
  (CER blog, 29 June 2007)
  
  
• What the summit says about the EU
  (CER blog, 26 June 2007)
  
  
• Turkey before the election
  (CER blog, 15 June 2007)
  
  
• G8 and world politics
  (CER blog, 11 June 2007)
  
  
• Sarkozy, secularism and Turkey's European future
  (bulletin article, June/July 2007)
  
  
• Three questions that Europe must ask about Russia
  (briefing note, 16 May 2007)
  
  
• What Turkey's crisis means for the EU
  (CER blog, 3 May 2007)
  
  
• Globalisation: business versus politics?
  (CER blog, 20 April 2007)
  
  
• We are all Nordics now, or are we?
  (bulletin article, April/May 2007)
  
  
• The future of the single market
  (CER blog, 2 March 2007)
  
  
• The Lisbon scorecard VII: Will globalisation leave Europe stranded?
  (pamphlet with Simon Tilford and Aurore Wanlin, February 2007)
  
  
• The wrong benchmark for Eastern Europe
  (CER blog, 25 January 2007)
  
  
• Why the UK needs to back Commission energy plans
  (CER blog, 12 January 2007)

• What to expect from the German presidency
  (briefing note, January 2007)
  
  
• If Turkey and the EU break up...
  (bulletin article with Charles Grant,
  December 2006/January 2007)
  
  
• Climate change:
  Western business can help China and India
  (CER blog, 17 November 2006)
  
  
• The EU and Russia:
  From principle to pragmatism
  (policy brief, November 2006)
  
  
• Absorption capacity - the wrong debate
  (CER blog, 10 November 2006)
  
  
• EU-Turkey relations: One year on - Turkey's progress towards the EU
  (September 2006)
  
  
• Europe's new division of labour
  (bulletin article, June/July 2006)
  
  
• Enlargement two years on: Economic success or political failure?
  (briefing paper for the Confederation of Danish Industries and the Central Organization of Industrial Employees in Denmark, April 2006)
  
  
• The Austrian EU presidency and the future of the constitutional treaty
  (briefing note, 24 January 2006)
  
  
• East versus West? The EU economy after enlargement
  (essay, January 2006)
  
  
• Some advice for Turkey
  (bulletin article, December 2005/January 2006)
  
  
• East versus West? The European economic and social model after enlargement
  (essay, October 2005)
  
  
• Why Europe should embrace Turkey
  (pamphlet with Heather Grabbe and Steven Everts,
  September 2005)
  
  
• Liberal versus social Europe
  (bulletin article, August/September 2005)
  
  
• The economics of Turkish accession
  (essay, July 2005)
  
  
• Embracing the dragon
  The EU's China partnership with China
  (pamphlet with Charles Grant and Mark Leonard,
  May 2005)
  
  
• One year after enlargement
  (bulletin article, April/May 2005)