Patricia Nouveau

Since June 2020

PhD Candidate & Researcher

• Main areas of research: international political economy, European Union’s industrial and digital policies, European economic policies

Since Sept 2019

Visiting Lecturer

• Responsible for the course ‘Global trade and economic governance’ given to master students specialising in International Relations – In English (5 ECTS)

Since Sept 2007 to present

Assistant professor – EU public affairs, China and emerging markets

• Lecturing (in English) to Bachelor students (2^nd & 3^rd year) specialising in International Business Studies

• Created and managing a specialisation programme ‘EU public affairs and lobbying practices’ (15 ECTS)
• Created and contributing to a specialisation programme ‘Doing business with emerging markets’ (15 ECTS)
• Tuition includes:
  
  • European business & economics: European integration process, European policies & Eurozone governance (5 ECTS)
  • Doing business in the EU: policymaking, governance, and lobbying (5 ECTS)
  • Emerging countries - market and country risk analysis (5 ECTS)
  • Contemporary China studies (2 ECTS), giving historical perspectives - from Mao to Market and current trends - China and the global order: Trade, Belt & Road Initiative, demographics, environment.
• From 2007 to 2016 and again in 2019-20: in charge of the course ‘International economics' (3.5 ECTS) about international trade & investment mechanisms, international production networks and international economic institutions.

From Sept 2016 to Sept 2019

Scientific advisor to the international business studies department

• Monitoring & analysing global economic and labour market changes.
• Providing guidelines on teaching content, practices, and activities.
• Developing two main axes of work: how to develop student analytical capabilities and how to include the digital transformation into trade-related teaching content.

From Feb 2003 to June 2004

• Visiting scholar at Renmin Daxue人民大学

• Lectures and seminars given to undergraduate and master students specialising in International Relations and European Studies – In English
• Tuition included: European Politics, European Integration Process's dynamics, EU-China relations with a focus on trade relations, European lobbying practices

• Researching about China’s economic opening and its impact on domestic market integration & disintegration processes
• Following intensive spoken and written Chinese classes

From Jan 1997 to Dec 2002

Account Manager in European Public Affairs

• Providing consultancy services in European Policy fields including EU Regional Policy, Transport & Energy as well as EU Common Trade policy

• Monitoring EU decision-making process & regulatory developments, advising businesses and institutions with regard to EU-driven policies
• Clients included the European Commission DG Regional Policy & DG Research, Botswana- and Singapore's Governments, European Express Courier Association, DHL, easyJet air carrier and ExxonMobil.

Mar 96 - Sep 96

• Intern in the Commission’s spokesman service

• Authoring and distribution of press releases for Patrick Child, spokesman of Yves Thibault de Silguy, Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs
• Member of strategic task force to design & implement "Communication on the EURO" plan.

1996 - 1998

• Master of Science Degree in International Politics (with Distinction)

• Studies included: world politics and international political economy, security and peace issues, specific modules on world regions
• Completed a comparative thesis on two regional integration processes - ASEAN and MERCOSUR

1995 - 1996

• Majored in European Studies (Erasmus)

1992- 1995

• Master's degree in Political Studies - specialisation Political economy & Social Sciences
  • Tuition included: French public law & institutions, International & European Politics, Political Economy and Social Sciences.

1991- 1992

• Higher-School preparatory class to prepare the competitive entrance examination of French Grandes Ecoles - specialisation History

October 2022

• Chapter included in the book Eds Jan Wouters, Eduardo Traversa, Dimitri Zurstrassen, Jean Christophe Defraigne, ‘EU Industrial Policy in the Multipolar Economy’ – Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies Series, Edward Elgar publishing.

Feb 2022

• Compared to the first and second editions (see below), new issues are developed such as BREXIT consequences, the Green Deal, EU budget and Recovery plan NextGenerationEU, European digital industrial policies and strategic autonomy, consequences for Europe of US-China trade and tech confrontation.
• https://www.deboecksuperieur.com/ouvrage/9782807329683-introduction-l-economie-europeenne

Sept 1, 2020

• Law and political science review https://jurisquare.be/fr/journal/rfdl/index.html

2017

• European Union (EU) political economy textbook for advanced university students but also for policymakers and NGOs.
• Compared to the first edition, new topics are covered such as BREXIT, European digital transformation and challenges, global trade new challenges, etc.
• Textbook used by the Ecole Nationale d’Administration, Sorbonne University

2016

• Outre-Terre 2016/1 (N°46) : European geopolitics review https://www.cairn.info/publications-de-Nouveau-Patricia--657763.htm

2014

• European Union (EU) political economy textbook for advanced university students but also for policymakers and NGOs;
• Avoiding the use of overly mathematical economic arguments, the book was designed to be very accessible to non-economists, all whilst providing in-depth coverage of EU economic policy and institutional processes.

1 June 2023

Colloque Industrie, Développement et souveraineté : Ressources, valeurs et territorialités (France-Europe, XVIIe-XXIe siècle), organised by the Comité pour l’histoire économique et financière de la France & the Institut de la gestion publique et du développement économique (Ministère français de l’Économie, des Finances et de la Souveraineté industrielle et numérique)

• Presentation of a research paper ‘Les partenariats technologiques des entreprises européennes comme vecteurs de souveraineté ou de dépendance industrielle pour l’Union européenne’

• Discussants: Laurent Warlouzet, Sorbonne University

10-15 July 2021

2021 IPSA World Congress of political science ‘New nationalisms in an open world’, organised by the International Political Science Association, Virtual

• Presentation of a research paper ‘From European Union’s current digital dependency to desired digital sovereignty: the path towards European technological unification’
• Discussants: Mario Telo (ULB-IEE ; LUISS-Rome), Sophie Meunier (Princeton University)

9-10 Sept 2019

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ‘Which EU industrial Policy in the multipolar economy of the 21^st century? The European Union’s technological and environmental dilemmas in the light of experiences of the US, China, Japan and the emerging markets’, organised by UCLouvain, Saint-Louis Bruxelles & Leuven Center for global governance studies, Brussels, Belgium

• Contribution to the panel ‘Futures challenges of EU industrial policy: innovation, digitalisation & sustainability’

25-26 March 2019

GEM-STONES/WIRE WORKSHOP ‘economic regulations in a digital world’, Toronto, Canada

• Presentation of a working paper: ‘Can regulation enable the EU to enter the digital race or is regulation a poor substitute for a truly EU-driven industrial policy?’

16-18 May 2018

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ‘The EU in International Affairs VI – protecting and projecting Europe’ – #EUIA18, organised by IES-VUB, IEE-ULB & UNU-CRIS – Brussels, Belgium

• Presentation of a research paper ‘Is the EU erecting a wall against US Silicon Valley’s tech giants?’

18-19 May 2017

CONFERENCE ‘EU 2.0: challenges of globalisation’, Mendel University, Brno, Czech Republic

• Contribution about ‘EU competition & industrial policies: contradicting challenges’

23-25 June 2022 & 25-29 Oct 2021

FIELD STUDY week ‘Doing business in EU’, organised for the Baltic Management Institute’s EMBA in partnership with Louvain School of Management and HEC Paris, Brussels, Belgium

• Keynote presentation about ‘competition, industrial policy & strategic autonomy of the European Union
• Keynote presentations about case studies about lobbying in the EU
• Organisation of a business game based on a real-life European public affairs case: students were assigned a specific stakeholder currently engaged in the consultations and discussions about the Digital Markets Act (DMA), had to prepare a document articulating public affairs objectives, a stakeholder mapping and positioning material, and defend their case in a conference-debate attended by other stakeholders.

7-12 June 2022

Contribution to the Summer School “Les relations transatlantiques, entre histoire et actualité, organised by Nantes University (CRHIA), Montréal University (CERIUM) & the Institut d’études européennes et globales

• Contributing to the panel ‘Relations économiques et commerce transatlantiques, du libre-échange au protectionnisme’
• Summer school - Les relations transatlantiques entre histoire et actualité

29 March 2022

Contribution to the panel of discussion ‘EU strategic sovereignty and industrial policy after Versailles, organised by Egmont – Royal Institute for International Relations

• Keynote presentation: ‘Digital sovereignty: less a matter of Digital dependency than a matter of Industrial path dependency’
• Egmont 20 March 2022 - Panel EU strategic sovereignty and Industrial Relations after Versaille

15 Feb 2022

Seminar ‘Entre big tech américaines et chinoises, l’autonomie strategique ouverte de l’Union européenne est-elle possible ? Organised by Bordeaux School of Economics

April 2023, 2022, 2019 & 2018

University of South Carolina Darla Moore School of Business – EU study week to Brussels, organised by Dr William R. Hauk, South Carolina University

• Keynote presentations to students about ‘the European Union: Why? What? How? From the origins to the limits’

Oct 2017 & 2016

International week - Institute for European Studies - Saint Louis University – Brussels

• Keynote presentation on lobbying practices at the EU level

End-April 2016

Singapore university - EU study week to Brussels, organised by University Saint Louis, Brussels, Belgium

• Keynote presentation on EU single market’s current functioning and governance issues

First semester from 2016 to present

Ad hoc seminar - Bachelor programme on EU public affairs – Louvain School of Management, LLN, Belgium

• Keynote presentations on EU lobbying cases such as:

1) ‘REACH regulation on the production and use of chemical substances: 20 years of lobbying battle at the EU level’

2) ‘Implementation of the Kimberley process: blood diamonds, Botswana and the EU’

3) ‘GDPR: EU digital governance versus US digital dominance?’