Dr. Andreas Raspotnik

Dr. Andreas Raspotnik is a Senior Fellow and Leadership Group member at The Arctic Institute. Since April 2025, Andreas is the Director of the High North Center for Business and Governance, Nord University in Bodø.

He is also a Senior Fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (FNI) in Oslo – Norway’s leading research institute on Arctic international affairs, a Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley, and was also a Global Fellow at the Global Europe Program of the Wilson Center in Washington, DC.

His research focuses on European Union Arctic policies, maritime transportation, international law, and new technologies’ introduction to the North. He received his jointly-awarded PhD in Political Science from the University of Cologne, Germany, and the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom in October 2016. His book on The European Union and the Geopolitics of the Arctic was published by Edward Elgar in January 2018.

Previously, Andreas was an EXACT Research Fellow at the University of Cologne and the Trans European Policy Studies Association in Brussels, Belgium (2011-2013). He has also held two Guest Researcher positions at FNI (2014 and 2015) and a Visiting Researcher position at the Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley (2014/2015). He further worked as Parliamentary Assistant for an Austrian Member of the European Parliament (2010).

Andreas has published in a number of peer reviewed journals. Most recently, he edited The Nordic States, NATO and the EU in Arctic Security: A New Nordic Balance? (2025, together with Andreas Østhagen, Die transatlantische Wiederentdeckung der Arktis (2025) or The European Union and Arctic Security: First Steps Towards a New Paradigm? (2025, together with Adam Stepien).

Andreas holds a Master of Laws in International Law of the Sea from the University of Tromsø, Norway and a Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of Vienna, Austria. He further received a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Vienna. In 2020, he also spoke with TAI’s Podcast Team on his experiences as a young researcher in the EU-Arctic world.