Speaker

Dr. Malorie Schaus is a Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), a leading Brussels-based think tank. Her research interests cover EU and international trade and investment law and economics. She studies the different dimensions of the EU trade policy (reoriented towards open strategic autonomy), as well as the reform of the World Trade Organization (WTO), including its dispute settlement system. 

She is the Coordinator of the Working Group 10 on ‘Global Trade Challenges’ as part of the Trade and Technology Dialogue (TTD), and the Rapporteur of the CEPS Task Force on the EU-China trade and investment relations. She is involved in diverse trade-related projects for the Commission and other organisations. She is equally the Coordinator of the CEPS Forum on the New Industrial Strategy for Europe.

She is a lecturer in international economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). 

Prior to joining CEPS, she has worked as a company lawyer defending the interests of Belgian companies. She has furthermore built experience through diverse internships at the European and international levels, including the Legal Affairs Division of the WTO, the UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the European Court of Justice, and a Brussels-based international law firm.

Malorie Schaus holds a Ph.D. in WTO law from the European University Institute in Florence (Italy). She graduated in law from the University of Liège (Belgium) and the University of Maastricht (The Netherlands). She earned a LL.M. in International Economic Law from the Geneva Graduate Institute (Switzerland).