Dr. Sebastian Klotz

Sebastian Klotz is a Senior Manager in the Sustainability & Strategic Regulatory team of PwC Switzerland. His work concentrates on advising international clients on technology, trade and sustainability related regulations as well as industrial policy.

He completed his PhD at the World Trade Institute at the University of Bern with a dissertation on the linkages between international standards and preferential trade agreements. During his doctoral studies he was a Doc.Moblity Fellow (Swiss National Science Foundation) at the University of Oxford and a visiting researcher at the Technical University of Munich. He also received the International Organization Research Fellowship of the Swiss Network for International Studies and the Young Researcher Promotion Fund of the University of Bern.

Prior to joining the World Trade Institute as a Doctoral Researcher, he worked for the Chief Economist of the International Trade Centre, and completed his postgraduate studies at the Barcelona School of Economics and undergraduate studies at the University of Strathclyde Business School.

He has written a book on International Standardization and Trade Regulation (Brill, 2024), has contributed to various edited volumes published by Cambridge University Press and Wiley, and has published in the Review of International Studies, Global Policy, European Taxation, and International Interactions.