Juergen Braunstein

GRM 2019 Workshop: The Role of Sovereign Investment Vehicles in the GCC

Postdoctoral Fellow - Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center

Juergen Braunstein is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center where he co-leads the project on Geopolitics of Renewable Energy. He is also a member of the Sovereign Wealth Community of Practice, Collaboration for Development (C4D) platform at the World Bank Group. He coordinated the New Climate Economy Special Initiative on financing the urban transition under the leadership at the London School of Economics (LSE) Cities. His areas of expertise include financial instruments, emerging markets and state-owned enterprise reform and Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs). He was researcher at the Kuwait Programme on Development, Governance Globalisation in the Gulf States, where he worked on one of the first databases on SWF equity investments in OECD economies. His work on SWFs appeared in the Review of International Political Economy, New Political Economy, Journal of Economic Policy and Global Policy. Juergen is the author of “Capital Choices: Sectoral Politics and the Variation in Sovereign Wealth” (2019) with Michigan University Press. He has a B.A. from the University of Vienna and a masters and doctorate from the London School of Economics.