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Portrait of Andreas Klasen
Director · Public Finance

Prof Dr Andreas Klasen

Lead, Strategic Collaboration

Andreas Klasen is Director of the lill Institute for Public Value. He is an Honorary Research Associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford, and an Honorary Visiting Professor at Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London. In addition, he serves as Managing Director with lill Advisory.

His research focuses on export, development and climate finance and the public value of financial institutions. Previously, he was Professor of International Business at Brunel University of London, Managing Director of the Export Credit Agency of the Federal Republic of Germany, a Partner at PwC and Head of Guarantees and Export Finance at Airbus Group (ex EADS).

Andreas was educated at Leibniz Universität Hannover (Legal State Exam), the University of Wales (MBA), Northumbria University (LLM and DBA) and the University of St Andrews (MLitt). He is also a fully qualified German solicitor (Rechtsanwalt).

Selected publications

Full publication list
Public Administration
Public Administration
Rationality patterns in export promotion organizationswith Aline Tanno, Kuno Schedler, Simona Casasola and Vera Hauser · Global Policy 17(2), 259–273 · 2026
Public Finance
From capacity to catalyst: sizing the additional export finance an EU guarantee could unlockwith Laure Blanchard-Brunac and San Bilal · ecdpm Discussion Paper 413 · 2026
Public Policy
Public Finance
Public export finance for digital transformationwith Henning Meyer · ecdpm Discussion Paper 409 · 2026
Public Finance
Public export credits for transactions in Africa: a qualitative comparative analysiswith Alexander Koldau and Roseline Wanjiru · Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy · 2025
Public Finance
Reinsuring export credit agencies: what drives demand?with Simone Krummaker · Journal of World Trade 59(3), 343–372 · 2025
Public Administration
Public Policy
Navigating geopolitical and trade megatrends: public export finance in a world of changewith Simone Krummaker, Julia Beck and James Pennington · Global Policy 15(5), 1007–1014 · 2024
Public Policy
The new OECD Arrangement on export credits: breakthrough or bad compromise?with Jan Vassard · Global Policy 14(5), 958–961 · 2023

Upcoming appearances

26Oct 2026

UN World Investment Forum: Risk sharing in a turbulent era

Doha · Moderator, Panel 1, "Trade and investment finance in a turbulent era"
2Dec 2026

BayernLB Trade & Export Finance Day

Nuremberg · Keynote

Teaching

University of St.Gallen · Degree teaching

Trade strategy in multipolar contexts

University of Oxford · Guest lecture

Financing the energy transition