Our impact

For more than 25 years, our experts have worked with or in governments, public financial institutions and international organisations in more than 30 countries. These case studies show what that work looks like in practice.

Case studies

Pathways for Development · Public Policy

Supporting the Asian Development Bank: policy approaches to stimulate exports

Fieldwork and interviews with Georgian exporters identified the barriers they face: complex trade regulation, limited knowledge of target markets, trade finance gaps and competing export promotion programmes abroad. The work recommended a comprehensive export promotion strategy with an ecosystem-based "team" approach, combining capacity building, targeted market support and financial risk mitigation.

Andreas Klasen · 2023–2024
Published in Public Administration and Development 44(3)

Shaping the Future of Trade · Public Finance

Supporting the European Commission: public finance for digital transformation

The work examined how selected European export credit agencies finance connectivity, data infrastructure, digital public infrastructure and digital services abroad. It recommended stronger coordination across national agencies, EU-level risk-sharing capacity including local currency cover, and a distinct pathway for digital public infrastructure combining grants, buyer credits and sovereign loans.

Andreas Klasen and Henning Meyer · 2025–2026
Published as ecdpm Discussion Paper 409

Supporting the Energy Transition · Public Finance

Supporting the UAE: a sustainability framework for a public financial institution

Etihad Credit Insurance is the federal export credit company of the United Arab Emirates. As part of its affiliate membership of the Net-Zero Export Credit Agencies Alliance, the institute supported ECI in developing its sustainability framework, setting out target-setting principles and reporting approaches for its operations and the transactions it enables.

lill Institute · 2025
Described in the Annual Report 2025

Our experts have worked with

Afreximbank · Australian Government · Asian Development Bank · Botswana Development Corporation · Etihad Credit Insurance · CESCE · Finnish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment · German Federal Ministry of Finance · European Commission · Islamic Development Bank Group · Netherlands Ministry of Finance · NEXI · United Nations · UK Export Finance · World Bank Group

Teaching and executive education

University of St.Gallen · Degree teaching

Trade strategy in multipolar contexts
CEMS Master in International Management · Andreas Klasen

University of Tübingen and TU Berlin · Degree teaching

The business of public policy
Market and non-market strategy · Henning Meyer

University of Oxford · Guest lecture

Financing the energy transition
De-risking and blended finance · Andreas Klasen

How the institute is governed and who supports its work.

Governance and funding