Vita

Julian Hinz is a Professor of International Economics at Bielefeld University and Director of the Research Group Trade Policy at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. His research focuses on international trade, economic sanctions, and their intersection with foreign policy. He holds a Ph.D. from the Paris School of Economics. He was named one of Germany's Top 40 under 40 by Capital magazine in 2025. He is a 2026 DG GROW Fellow with the European Commission and, since February 2026, a member of the China Commission of the German Bundestag.

Julian Hinz is a Professor of International Economics at Bielefeld University and Director of the Research Group Trade Policy at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Previously, he was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Paris School of Economics and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He was named one of Germany's Top 40 under 40 by Capital magazine in 2025. He is a 2026 DG GROW Fellow with the European Commission and, since February 2026, a member of the China Commission of the German Bundestag.

His research is at the intersection of international economics and data science, studying international trade and its connection with foreign policy, the spatial dimension of international trade, migration and finance, and related questions in applied econometrics. His work is characterized by policy-relevant research questions using state-of-the-art quantitative methods often involving big data. He has published in leading journals including the European Economic Review, Economic Policy, and the Journal of International Economics. He serves as Associate Editor for the Review of World Economics, directs the Albert O. Hirschman PostDoc Program at the Kiel Institute, and develops open source tools for economists, including KITE (Kiel Institute Trade Policy Evaluation Model) and glmhdfe.