Johannes Jarlebring

Johannes Jarlebring is a senior researcher in political science at Sieps and also serves as Uppsala University’s EU strategist. His main research interests concern the EU’s competitiveness agenda and the Union’s response to the geopoliticization of its external environment. Johannes earned his PhD at Uppsala University with a dissertation on the EU’s market power.

Johannes has previously held a number of key roles in EU policy and advisory work. Between 2010 and 2015, he ran the consulting firm Bring & Company in Brussels, focusing on providing strategic support in EU affairs to actors in high technology and finance. He also has nearly 10 years of experience from the Swedish Government Offices (the Prime Minister’s Office, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and Sweden’s Permanent Representation to the EU), where he worked in particular on negotiations regarding the EU treaties and institutional issues of the Union.

Selection of recent publications

• One Fund to Rule Them All. An analysis of the proposed competitiveness fund. Sieps. 2025.
• Betydelsen av EU:s marknadsmakt i en geopolitisk värld. Europaperspektiv. 2024
• The European Union’s Market Power: Techniques, Constraints and Implications for External Action. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. 2024.
• Blacklisting and the EU as a global regulator: The institutionally predisposed norm breaker. Journal of Common Market Studies. 2023.
• ’Regime vetting’: a technique to exercise EU market power. Journal of European Public Policy. 2022.