Enrique Feás Costilla

Enrique Feás is Senior Analyst at the Elcano Royal Institute, Associate Professor at IE University and the IE School of Global and Public Affairs, independent board member of the Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO) and independent consultant. He is also member of the Advisory Board of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) and member of the Spanish Exporters and Investors Club’s Committee for Reflection on Internationalization.

He is a State Economist and Trade Expert (Técnico Comercial y Economista del Estado), currently on leave of absence. He has previously been Economic and Commercial Counsellor at the Spanish Embassies in Egypt and the Philippines, Deputy Director for Trade Policy with Mediterranean Countries, Africa and the Middle East, Executive Board Member of España Expansión Exterior, member of the FIEX-FONPYME Executive Committee of COFIDES, Advisor for International Affairs to the Vice-President and Minister of Economy and Technical Advisor at the Deputy Directorate of Foreign Sector Studies. He is founder and co-editor of the economic policy blog BlogNewDeal.com and co-author of the book La Unión hace la fuerza: Europa ante los desafíos del siglo XXI (Strength through the Union: Europe facing the challenges of the 21st century), published by Deusto.

Enrique Feás’s areas of expertise are international economics and the European Union, in matters of globalization, economic and financial governance, trade policy and global value chains, economic and monetary integration in Europe, economic disintegration (Brexit), Next Generation EU and Recovery and Resilience Plans.