Lecturer & Senior Fellow
Leiden University &
Leiden Asia Centre
Since 2018 I have been a lecturer at Leiden University and a Senior Fellow with the Leiden Asia Centre. At Leiden University I have taught classes on Chinese International Political Economy and Asian Political Economy and supervised undergraduate and Master’s students’ theses. At the Leiden Asia Centre, I have participated in a range of projects including publications on Chinese railway infrastructure in Hungary and Serbia, European Indo-Pacific strategies, and China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia and Latin America.
Senior Fellow &
Senior Research Scholar
Yale University Law School
Paul Tsai China Center
In 2023-2024 I was a Senior Fellow with the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School. I led a project comparing East Asian approaches to economic security and resilience in Japan, S. Korea, Taiwan and Australia against the background of an expanding US-China economic security dilemma. I created and led a study group on Economic Security and Economic Statecraft.
Head of Global China Research
Mercator Institute for Chinese Studies
In 2020-2021 I was the Head of Global China Research, leading the foreign policy team. I co-led a project on changing US-China relations and the implications for Europe as part of a Ford Foundation grant that resulted in multiple publications. I also led a co-authored study on China’s global trade strategy for German and EU policy makers during Germany’s EU Council presidency in 2020.
Resident Scholar
Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for
Global Policy
(now Carnegie China)
I joined Carnegie-Tsinghua in 2011, a year after the Center was founded. As a faculty member in Tsinghua’s International Relations Department, I joined a number of my colleagues as resident scholars at Carnegie-Tsinghua. I ran a program on China and the Developing World focused on publications and events linked to China’s ties to developing countries, especially in Latin America and Southeast Asia. I also led a project from 2015-2016 for the Ford Foundation on China’s impact on the linkage between economics and security in different regions in which we organized events at all of Carnegie’s global centers at the time, including in Beijing, Washington, DC, Beirut, Brussels and Moscow.
Associate Professor
Tsinghua University,
Department of International Relations
After receiving my PhD at the start of 2008, I joined the International Relations Department at Tsinghua that fall, just after the Olympics. I was the first and only full-time, foreign faculty member in the Department, beginning as an Assistant Professor then promoted to Associate Professor in 2011. I taught courses on Chinese domestic and international political economy as well as on China-Latin America relations. I supervised Tsinghua IR undergraduate and graduate student theses as well as PhD students in Tsinghua’s Developing Country Studies PhD program.