Autorenportrait
Albrecht Rothacher is a book author, EU diplomat and an expert on Eastern European and East Asian economics and politics.After military service he studied social sciences in Berlin, Konstanz, at Yale and in Bridgeport (M.A.), with doctoral work at the EUI in Firenze, in Tokyo and at the LSE (Ph.D.(Econ)). From 1984 to 2020 he worked as a senior official at the European Commission, mostly in trade and diplomatic functions, posted to Vienna, Tokyo, Singapore and Paris. He dealt with Russia mostly in the OSCE context and in headquarters when in charge of coordinating economic analysis and trade negotiations.
