Michael Koplovsky is a former senior US diplomat and trade negotiator specialising in transatlantic economic policy, global regulation, and international negotiations. He is currently Visiting Professor at the College of Europe and Senior Advisor at Kreab Worldwide.
During his diplomatic career, Koplovsky concluded bilateral agreements across five continents, led US delegations in trilateral NAFTA trade negotiations, and participated in multilateral negotiations at the United Nations and the OECD. As Minister-Counselor at the US Mission to the European Union, he played a leading role in advancing transatlantic data privacy protections and coordinating sanctions alignment between the United States and the European Union. At the OECD, he negotiated agreements and frameworks on internet policy principles, international tax rules, and accession processes for Colombia, Costa Rica, Latvia, and Lithuania. In Washington, D.C., Koplovsky served as Director for Mexican Affairs at the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR). In overseas postings, he negotiated bilateral trade agreements with Morocco and Suriname and oversaw development assistance and humanitarian programs in Zambia and Syria.
In the private sector, Koplovsky worked on Amazon’s EU Public Policy team in Brussels, where he engaged stakeholders across Europe to support substantive policy outcomes related to the EU AI Act and Deforestation Regulation, as well as issues involving workplace technology, labour, corporate social responsibility, trade, and transatlantic regulatory cooperation.
Earlier in his career, Koplovsky served in the World Bank’s Strategic Planning Division. He has also held academic appointments, including as Professor of Organisational Science at George Washington University, where he taught courses on negotiation, conflict resolution, and global affairs. He currently leads a graduate seminar on US–EU trade at the College of Europe in Bruges.
He holds degrees from Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and the U.S. Naval War College, and has pursued additional studies at Goethe University Frankfurt and the Université Libre de Bruxelles’s Institute for European Studies.
