Patricia Nouveau

Patricia Nouveau is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain, Belgium) and the University of Strasbourg (Unistra, France), where she teaches global and European economic governance, European Union industrial and digital policy, and business lobbying at the EU level.

She is also a researcher affiliated with the Centre d’Études des Relations Internationales (CEFIR) at the University of Liège (Belgium). Her research examines the European Union’s pursuit of digital sovereignty and the industrial and regulatory policies it has developed to advance this objective. She focuses particularly on the interdependence of global digital value chains and the technological rivalry between the United States and China, considering its implications for the European Union. She also compares the industrial and digital strategies of these three major powers within an increasingly competitive geopolitical environment.

Patricia Nouveau is co-author, with Jean-Christophe Defraigne, of the 2013, 2017, and 2022 editions of Introduction à l’économie européenne (De Boeck). She has also contributed to the edited volumes EU Industrial Policy in the Multipolar Economy (Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies Series, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022; eds. Jan Wouters, Eduardo Traversa and Dimitri Zurstrassen) and The Future of Transatlantic Relations in a Geoeconomic World (Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming, January 2027). Her other publications include Dépendance technologique et politiques industrielles européennes : le dilemme entre souveraineté propriétaire, territoriale et réglementaire (French Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty, 2025) and European Union’s Digital Governance versus United States’ Digital Dominance (Revue de la Faculté de droit de l’Université de Liège, Larcier, 2020/2).

Prior to pursuing an academic career, she worked as a consultant in EU public affairs, advising businesses, governments, and European institutions on trade, transport, and regional policy