Thomas Fritz is a Trade and Investment Policy Officer at PowerShift. In his work, he analyses international trade and investment agreements as well as their impact on the environment, human rights and democratic freedoms.

A particular focus is on the critical examination of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements, investment protection regimes and the role of arbitration tribunals. In doing so, he examines to what extent existing regulations hinder or promote sustainable development and which reform approaches are necessary to make global economic relations socially and ecologically just.

He works on topics such as EU trade policy, global supply chains, commodity trading and the regulation of transnational corporations. Another focus is on the analysis of power asymmetries in global trade and their impact on countries of the Global South.

Thomas Fritz accompanies political processes on a national, European and international level. These include negotiations on trade agreements, reform debates in international investment law and initiatives to strengthen binding human rights and environmental standards.

The aim of his work is to identify political alternatives to existing trade and investment regimes and to expand scope for a democratically controlled, social-ecological transformation of the world economy.