Agathe Demarais is a senior policy fellow for geoeconomics at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). Before joining ECFR, Demarais was the global forecasting director of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Demarais is the author of "Backfire", a book on the global ripple effects of sanctions and export controls. The book draws on her experience as an economic policy advisor for the diplomatic corps of the French Treasury in Russia and Lebanon.