Dr. Sascha
Lohmann
Dr. Sascha Lohmann is a Visiting Fellow at the Americas Division of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin, and a Non-resident Lloyd and Lilian Vasey Fellow at Pacific Forum, Honolulu, HI. He has consulted for governments and international organizations, the private sector, as well as non-governmental organizations on various aspects of the use of EU and U.S. economic sanctions against state and non-state actors, including questions of implementation and effectiveness, extraterritorial jurisdiction, risk management, as well as the mitigation of unintended consequences. He has published widely on these issues, including in peer-reviewed academic journals, and frequently appears in German and international media.
Previously, he was Fritz Thyssen Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, a Transatlantic Research Fellow at the Institute for European Integration, University of Hamburg/Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt Foundation, as well as an American-German Situation Room Fellow at The German Marshall Fund of the United States/American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns Hopkins University. A political scientist by training, he graduated with a diploma from Free University Berlin, and completed a PhD at Goethe University Frankfurt.