From 9:00 am to 9:45 am HST, Dr. Lohmann will present his research project entitled The Multilateralization of Unilateral Sanctions: The Case of U.S. Export Controls toward the People’s Republic of China. Dr. Sascha Lohmann (DEU) is a Visiting Researcher at the Americas Division of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin. Previously, he was Fritz Thyssen Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Transatlantic Research Fellow at the Institute for European Integration, University of Hamburg/Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt Foundation, as well as American-German Situation Room Fellow at The German Marshall Fund of the United States/American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns Hopkins University. His current research focuses on U.S. export control policy on emerging and foundational technologies vis-à-vis the People’s Republic of China, and its multilateralization through cooperation by U.S. allies in Europe and Asia. A political scientist by training, he graduated with a diploma from Free University Berlin, and completed a PhD at Goethe University Frankfurt.