Mihir Sharma
Principal research fellowMihir is a principal research fellow at IPPR, where he works on geopolitics, geo-economics, and the UK’s place in a changing world.
In a two-decade career spanning three continents, Mihir has worked in the media, in large think tanks, for multilateral organisations, and in academia. His areas of focus have included infrastructure finance; state capacity and regulatory reform; climate action and diplomacy; economic security and resilient supply chains; development and security in the Indo-Pacific; and China’s footprint in the developing world.
Mihir was trained in economics and political science, and has been a Bloomberg Opinion columnist on global economics and politics for over a decade.
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New world, new relationship: Our future with Europe
Britain’s assumptions about its place in the world no longer hold, upturned by Russian aggression, American unreliability and Chinese coercion.
The Europe agenda: Our values
Why we must redesign our relationship with Europe around the values we share and want to defend.
The Europe agenda: Defence and security
In this period of geopolitical chaos, greater defence and security integration offer a fruitful way for the UK to deepen its relationship with Europe.