Sam Lowe

Associate Fellow, UK in the World Programme and the Global Economy and Finance Programme

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Biography

Sam Lowe is a Partner at Flint Global where he heads its Trade and Market Access Practice, advising investors and corporates on issues such as economic security, tariff and regulatory barriers to trade, rules of origin, and trade and sustainability. He also publishes Most Favoured Nation, a weekly Substack newsletter focused on international trade.

Sam was previously a member of the UK government’s Strategic Trade Advisory Group (2019–2020) and has held positions as a senior advisor to the Blakeney Group, a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform, and the Brexit and trade lead for a prominent environmental charity. In his early career, he advocated for the rights of small-scale gemstone miners in Greenland and worked with communities facing forced-land acquisition in Uganda.

Past experience

2021–presentPartner, Flint Global
2018–presentSenior Visiting Research Fellow, The Policy Institute, Kings College London
2019–2020Member, Strategic Trade Advisory Group, Department for International Trade
2018–2021Senior Research Fellow, Centre for European Reform
2011-2012MA Conflict, Governance and International Development, UEA