Experts Letizia Suera

Letizia Suera is a Research Assistant with the Economic Security Group at the Institute of Geoeconomics (IOG) and a Capacity Building Associate at the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI).

Her research focuses on international trade governance, geoeconomics, development cooperation, and regional integration. She has professional experience in trade compliance and sanctions advisory, the organization of international conferences, and institutional and bilateral relations at the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Canada. Her research and publications have examined the weaponization of renewable and nuclear energy technologies through trade controls, the challenges associated with Least Developed Countries’ graduation, and EU-Asia Pacific cooperation on climate and energy.

Letizia holds a Master’s degree in Political Economy from the University of Amsterdam, where her thesis analyzed the effects of Asia-Pacific Least Developed Countries’ graduation on recipients of the EU’s Generalized Scheme of Preferences Everything But Arms (EBA) Initiative. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, International Studies, and Economics from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and pursued part of her undergraduate studies at Sciences Po Paris and Université de Montréal.