Dr. Martin Braml is a foreign trade economist, government advisor, and lecturer for international trade policy at the University of Passau. He is the co-founder and partner of Munich Economics, a policy advisory consultancy that works with public and private sector clients in the field of economic policy, fiscal measures,... Read more
Dr. Martin Braml is a foreign trade economist, government advisor, and lecturer for international trade policy at the University of Passau. He is the co-founder and partner of Munich Economics, a policy advisory consultancy that works with public and private sector clients in the field of economic policy, fiscal measures, environmental policy, and international trade policy. Martin is currently a Policy advisor at the German Federal Ministry of Finance.
As an economist, Martin worked for more than four years at the ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich, where he gained his first experience in the field of scientific policy advice. His analysis covered trade policy evaluations including social and economic outcomes, examinations of cross-border supply chains and international investment policies. Martin then spent two years as a Research Economist at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva, where he worked in particular for an intergovernmental arbitration tribunal. Since 2022, he is a policy advisor to the German Federal Ministry of Finance for energy & climate questions.
Martin completed his PhD on the political economy of free trade agreements and the logic of trade wars at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). In 2019 he was invited to the Economics Department at Stanford University for a six-months research visit. He holds a Master’s degree in Economics and Finance from Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. In 2016 he worked as an intern at the Reserve Bank of India in Mumbai, where he undertook a research project on macroeconomic determinants for India’s foreign trade.
Martin’s main areas of expertise lies in energy and climate policies foreign trade, globalisation and international macroeconomics. In these areas, he has played a key role in shaping economic policy debates in Germany. He is frequently interviewed as an economic expert by national and international television stations and is a guest author for various media, and is a much sought-after keynote speaker and participant in panel discussions.
In 2020, Martin was awarded the Ludwig Erhard Prize for economic journalism.