The Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs’ yearly fellowship programme addresses top economists/academics of recognised reputation. Their expert economic advice will support the Directorate-General in its analysis and policy making.
The type of expertise sought covers a broad range of fields spreading across industrial, trade and innovation policy, as well as policies related to market integration and, more generally, mission-oriented policy design. New and emerging issues with high relevance for the single market and EU industry are covered as well, for example
- strategic autonomy
- supply chain distress
- future-proofing skills
- impact investments and alternative business models
- purposeful innovation
- the industrial ecosystem approach
Based on a call for expression of interest running until mid-2026, this 4-year programme includes yearly cycles of evaluation of proposals and an evolving list of candidates in view of yearly appointments.
Fellow economists appointed for 2026
| Cristina Caffarra (IT) | University College London |
| Friederike Welter (DE) | Head of the Institut für Mittelstandsforschung |
Giorgio Barba Navaretti (IT) | University of Milan, Sciences Po |
| Hanna Hottenrott (DE) | ZEW-Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, Technical University of Munich |
Carmen Diaz Mora (ES) | University of Castilla-La Mancha |
| Julian Hinz (DE) | Kiel Institute for the World Economy |
Isabela Manelici (RO) | London School of Economics |
Adam Ambroziak (PL) | Warsaw School of Economics |
Dimitri Zurstrassen (BE) | LUISS Guido Carli |
| Gianmarco Ottaviano (IT) | Bocconi University |
Fellow economists appointed for 2025
| Carolina Castaldi | Utrecht University |
| Chiara Criscuolo | International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group) |
| Lisandra Flach | ifo Center for International Economics; LMU Munich |
| Angela Garcia Calvo | University of Reading, Henley Business School |
| Réka Juhász | University of British Columbia |
| Erkki Karo | Tallinn University of Technology |
| Paula Kivimaa | Finnish Environment Institute SYKE; University of Sussex |
| Stéphanie Monjon | Université Paris Dauphine |
| Moritz Schularick | Kiel Institute; Sciences Po |
| Simone Tagliapietra | Bruegel; European University Institute; Johns Hopkins University |
| Vadym Volosovych | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
Fellow economists appointed for 2024
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Fellow economists appointed for 2023
| Antonio Andreoni |
| Forthcoming publication |
| Béatrice Dumont |
| Supply chain stress tests for critical inputs: a proof-of-concept |
| Lionel Fontagné |
| Reassessing the Impact of the Single Market and Its Ability to Help Build Strategic Autonomy |
| Mario Holzner |
| Catalytic Industrial Policy – in concordia varietas |
| Slavo Radosevic |
| EU single market embracing ‘green' industrial policy: paradigm shift and challenges |
| Marina Ranga |
| Towards Single Market 2.0: European Green Deal effects on the EU’s Industrial Ecosystems |
| Andrea Renda |
| What 'North Star' for EU industrial policy |
| Andrés Rodriguez-Pose |
| Regional vulnerability to the green transition |
| Robert Stehrer |
| The EU27’s ‘energy-renewables’ ecosystem: Importance, dependencies and policy aspects |
| Yoto Yotov |
| Reassessing the Impact of the Single Market and Its Ability to Help Build Strategic Autonomy |
