Tobias Wuttke

Tobias Wuttke is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Bard College Berlin. His research looks at global production networks (GPN) and the prospects of export-led industrialization in developing and emerging economies, as well as the role of industrial policy in GPNs. He is also interested in researching potential windows of opportunity for economic development emerging out of the green transition. Further interests include the political economy of industrial policy in Europe. Tobias currently works on a research project studying geographical reconfigurations of global production networks in a post-COVID-19 global economy (funded by the German Research Fund), driven by industrial policy and geopolitics, with a focus on the semiconductor industry in Europe and Southeast Asia (2023-2025). Tobias holds a PhD in International Studies (2022) from Roskilde University, Denmark. His PhD thesis focused on economic development via global value chains (GVCs), with a case study of the automotive industry.