Financing Europe’s green transition: green foreign investment in an age of strategic autonomy
This on-line event launches a new LSE study on the role of foreign investment in Europe’s green transition. Drawing on novel data that leverage Large Language Models (LLMS) to identify green foreign direct investment (FDI) beyond renewables, the study reveals a much wider green investment landscape spanning manufacturing, transport, research and development, and enabling technologies. It also shows how these flows are reshaping Europe’s green industrial transition, raising important questions for competitiveness, strategic dependence and public policy.
Meet our speakers and chair
Peter Berkowitz is Policy Director, Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy, European Commission.
Ana Novik is the Head of the Investment Division at the OECD. In her role, Ms. Novik establishes strategies for the OECD to secure a leadership role in the international investment debate and to advance a more structured economic analysis of investment flows and impact.
Juan Alvarez-Vilanova is a PhD candidate in Economic Geography at LSE. Juan’s research is rooted at the intersection between regional economic inequality, the role of multinationals and FDI in the economic development process, and the EU’s broad push for green, digital and resilient regional development strategies.
Riccardo Crescenzi (@crescenzi_r) is a Professor of Economic Geography and Deputy Head of Department (Research) at LSE. Riccardo has a long track-record of teaching and research in regional economic development, innovation, FDI and GVCs, and in the analysis of public policies. His most recent book “Harnessing Global Value Chains for Regional Development” (2023, Routledge) explores how economies can build, embed and reshape global value chains for local enhancement.
Filippo Teoldi currently works at The Economist as an interactive visual journalist. He joined the newspaper in 2023. Previously, he worked as a data editor for Domani, an Italian daily newspaper. His work has also been featured in Bloomberg Businessweek and the Daily Shot.
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