Michael Koplovsky is a former senior U.S. diplomat, trade negotiator, university professor, and Brussels lobbyist. He is currently a Senior Advisor at Kreab International and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe.
During his diplomatic career, he served twice at the U.S. Mission to the EU in Brussels, most recently as Economic Minister-Counselor, and at the U.S. Delegation to the OECD in Paris. He successfully concluded bilateral accords on five continents, led trilateral NAFTA trade talks, and conducted multilateral negotiations at the UN and at the OECD. In Brussels, he promoted and defended U.S. commercial and economic interests in the areas of competition, taxation, digital policy, and intellectual property, by lobbying EU institutions and Member States and built support with legislators, executives, journalists, and civil society to ensure successful bilateral data privacy protections (Privacy Shield), and sanctions coordination. At the OECD, he negotiated new Internet Policy Principles, tax rules, and Colombia, Costa Rica, Latvia, and Lithuania accession. In addition to serving as Director for Mexican Affairs and Deputy Director for Andean Affairs at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), while posted at American embassies abroad, he negotiated bilateral trade agreements with Morocco and Suriname. Prior to joining the U.S. Government, Mr. Koplovsky worked in the World Bank’s Strategic Planning Division. Mr. Koplovsky taught undergraduate courses on negotiation and conflict resolution, global issues, organizational change, and leadership while Visiting Professor of Organizational Science at the George Washington University in Washington, DC.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from the Johns Hopkins University, a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College. He has also studied economics and political science at the Goethe University in Frankfurt and European integration at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles’s Institute d’etudes europeenes in Brussels. In addition to English, Mr. Koplovsky speaks French, Dutch, Danish, and some German.
He is an avid sailor, a recovering marathoner and enjoys downhill skiing and open water swimming. He maintains ties to his native New England. He and his wife have two children studying at university in the United States.