Agnieszka Gehringer is an associate professor at the University of Göttingen (Germany) and a senior research analyst at the Flossbach von Storch Research Institute. She earned her habilitation at the University of Göttingen in 2016, her Ph.D. at the University of Turin in 2010, graduate Masters in economics at Collegio Carlo Alberto, and Masters and Bachelors degrees in economics at Sapienza, University of Rome. She has authored and co-authored numerous publications in international peer-reviewed journals in the field of international economics, international finance, innovation economics and economics of knowledge.