Marta Soprana
Dr. Marta Soprana is an LSE Fellow in International Political Economy in the Department of International Relations, where she teaches courses on the political economy of trade.
Her research interests fall into the field of trade policy, trade in services, digital trade, and law and technology. She is particularly interested in exploring the relationship between emerging technologies, especially artificial intelligence (AI), and international trade from a legal and policy perspective.
She holds a PhD cum laude from Bocconi University. Her doctoral thesis, which focused on the role that international trade agreements play in AI governance, addressed the emergence of AI-specific policies, including the EU proposal for a Regulation on AI.
She has published, among others, in the Journal of International Economic Law, and the Journal of World Trade. She recently co-authored a book chapter on ‘The Evolution of the EU Digital Trade Policy’, and published an article comparing the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement with other recent preferential trade agreements emerging in the Asia-Pacific region, including the EU-Japan FTA, available here.