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Editorial Board of the EU-China Observer
Members of the Editorial Board
Shaun Gerard BRESLIN
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Professor Shaun BRESLIN is Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, and Co-Editor of The Pacific Review. He was Senior Scientist of the EU FP7-funded project on Europe in a Multipolar Global Order (2011-2015). He has published widely on China, East Asia and EU-China relations, and comparative regional integration studies. |
Duncan FREEMAN
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Dr. Duncan FREEMAN is at the EU-China Research Centre of the College of Europe. He was previously Research Fellow and has taught and carried out research on China’s economic and policy development in addition to EU-China relations at the Brussels Institute of Contemporary China Studies, Brussels Diplomatic Academy and Brussels Academy for China and European Studies, at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB). He has a BA in Politics and Modern History from the University of Manchester, an MSc in Chinese Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, a Postgraduate Diploma in Economic Principles from the University of London and a PhD completed at the VUB. He has previously lived and worked in Beijing and Hong Kong for a total of 17 years and is fluent in Chinese. During his time in Hong Kong, he was the editor and publisher of several leading publications on the Chinese legal and tax systems. Among his areas of research are the political economy of EU-China relations, especially in the area of outward investment, energy and climate policy, the mutual external impacts of the EU's and China’s domestic development and the EU-China political relationship. |
Michele CASADEI
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Michele CASADEI (IT) is part-time Research Assistant to the Baillet-Latour Chair of European Union-China Relations at the College of Europe, Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies, since January 2019. His working background include the European Parliament (2016-18), Italy’s Permanent Representation to the European Union (2015) and China’s country office of UNEP (2015). During his stay in China, he also cooperated with the think tank “ThinkIn China”. Michele holds a Double Degree MA in International Relations (2013-2016) awarded by LUISS “Guido Carli” in Rome, Italy, and by China Foreign Affairs University (CFAU) in Beijing, PRC. While studying for his Bachelor in Political Science in LUISS (2010-2013), he spent a semester as Erasmus exchange student at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Brussels, Belgium. His fields of interest are: diplomacy, China, EU decision-making processes, European politics, sustainable development, energy, digital innovation |
Jing MEN
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Professor Jing MEN is Director of the EU-China Research Centre and holds the Baillet Latour Chair of European Union-China Relations in the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies at the College of Europe in Bruges. She obtained a PhD in Political Science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Her research and teaching focus on EU-China relations. She is the founder of the electronic journal EU-China Observer, launched at the beginning of 2009, which publishes articles on EU-China relations. She publishes widely on EU-China relations and Chinese foreign policy and she co-founded the EU-China Collaborative Research Network under the University Association of Contemporary European Studies (UACES), which is a widely extended network for people who share the common interests on the research of EU-China relations. |
Philomena MURRAY
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Professor Philomena MURRAY is Professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences and Research Director on Comparative Regional Governance at the EU Centre on Shared Complex Challenges at the University of Melbourne. She is a graduate of the College of Europe in Bruges and the University College Dublin and obtained her PhD at the European University Institute in Florence. Philomena MURRAY holds Australia's only Jean Monnet Chair ad personam. She is an Assessor for the Australian Research Council and for the European Research Council. A former diplomat, she has run training courses for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Moreover, Professor MURRAY is Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges; Research Associate of Trinity College Dublin’s School of Business; Research Associate at UNU-CRIS, Bruges; and Adjunct Senior Fellow of the National Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury. |
Ramon PACHECO PARDO
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Professor Ramon PACHECO PARDO is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Relations at King's College London. He is also Co-director of the London Asia Pacific Centre for Social Science as well as a Research Associate at LSE IDEAS and the Lau China Institute. In addition, he is a Committee member at Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific EU. His research interests include East Asia's regional governance, political economy and international relations, and EU-East Asia relations. Dr. PACHECO PARDO held visiting positions with Korea University, Melbourne University and National University of Singapore. He obtained a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science. |
Anna Katherina STAHL
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Dr. Anna Katharina STAHL is a Research Associate at the EU-China Research Centre in the Department of EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies at the College of Europe in Bruges. She currently works as a Fulbright Fellow in the China Program at the US Institute of Peace (USIP) in Washington D.C. Her research interests include China’s role in Africa, European and Chinese foreign and security policy, as well as international development cooperation. She has written several academic articles and policy briefs, and her dissertation on EU-China-Africa trilateral relations is being published by Palgrave Macmillan. Dr. Stahl holds a PhD in political science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and an MA in EU International Relations and Diplomacy Studies from the College of Europe. She also received a French-German double degree in political science and public law from the Institute d’Etudes Politiques de Lille and the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. |
Reuben WONG
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Professor Reuben WONG is Director of Studies at the College of Alice and Peter Tan (CAPT) and Jean Monnet Chair at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is also Associate Professor in the Political Science Department at NUS and a Research Affiliate at the EU-China Research Centre at the College of Europe. Professor Wong earned an MPhil in European Politics at Oxford University and a PhD in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. A former diplomat, he served as First Secretary in the Singapore Embassy in Paris (1995-1998). |
Haiyan ZHANG
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Professor Haiyan ZHANG is Associate Professor at NEOMA Business School and Director of the NEOMA Confucius Institute for Business in Rouen. He is also Associate Professor at the University of Antwerp and a Research Affiliate at the EU-China Research Centre at the College of Europe. Haiyan ZHANG holds a PhD in Development Policy and Management as well as an MA in Public Administration and Management from the University of Antwerp and a diploma from Shanghai International Studies University. |
Hong ZHOU
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Professor Hong ZHOU is Deputy Chair of the Academic Division for International Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in Beijing. She was previously Director General of the Institute of European Studies and Senior Research Fellow at CASS. She is, inter alia, a Member of the 12th People’s Congress of China and of the China Social Economic Council as well as the Chair of the Chinese Association for European Studies and the Deputy Chair of the Chinese Association for International Relations. ZHOU Hong has published widely on the European Union, China and EU-China relations. |