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Gabriel Siles-Br眉gge

Module Co-Leader on reconfiguration of transatlantic trade after Brexit

Email:gabriel.siles-brugge@bristol.ac.uk
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Gabriel Siles-Br眉gge is Professor in Global Governance & Public Policy at the University of Bristol, having previously worked at the Universities of Warwick, Manchester and Oxford Brookes. His teaching has focused on International Political Economy, EU politics and public policy. His research has examined the politics of trade and investment agreements, with a focus on the EU and Brexit. His current work is particularly focused on the interplay between health and trade governance. He is the (co-)author of two books 鈥Constructing European Union Trade Policy听(2014, Palgrave Macmillan) and (with Ferdi De Ville) of听TTIP: The Truth about Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership听(2016, Polity) 鈥 and has published several articles in leading academic journals (including in the听Journal of Common Market Studies,听New Political Economyand the听Review of International Political Economy).

He has advised NGOs, trade unions and various parliaments on questions of trade policy and Brexit. He is an advisor on trade policy to the European Public Health Alliance, formerly representing it as an alternate member of the European Commission鈥檚 鈥楨xpert group on Trade Agreements鈥. He also served as a Parliamentary Academic Fellow (2017-19) and Specialist Advisor (2021-22) with the UK House of Commons International Trade Committee.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

  • De Ville, F. and Siles-Br眉gge, G. (2016),听TTIP: The Truth about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, (Cambridge: Polity Press).
  • Siles-Br眉gge, G. (2014),听Constructing European Union Trade Policy: A Global Idea of Europe听(Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).
  • De Ville, F. and Siles-Br眉gge, G. (2019), 鈥樷,听Politics and Governance, 7 (3), pp. 7-18.
  • Siles-Br眉gge, G. (2019), 鈥楤ound by Gravity or Living in a 鈥淧ost Geography Trading World鈥? Expert knowledge and affective spatial imaginaries in the construction of the UK鈥檚 post-Brexit trade policy鈥,听New Political Economy, 24 (3), pp. 422-39.
  • Siles-Br眉gge, G. (2017), 鈥楾ransatlantic Investor Protection as a Threat to Democracy: The Potency and Limits of an Emotive Frame鈥,听Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 30 (5-6), pp. 464-88.
  • Siles-Br眉gge, G. and Strange, M. (2020), 鈥楳unicipal Level Trade Contestation: activists and local governments from the MAI to TTIP鈥, in J. Broschek and P. Goff (eds),听Multilevel Trade Politics: Configurations, Dynamics, Mechanisms听(Toronto: University of Toronto Press), pp. 324-49.