Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Nana de Graaff

Nana de Graaff is a Professor of Global Politics and Networks and University Research Chair at the Department of Political Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her main research interests are within International Relations, International Political Economy and Elite Studies (political sociology). Her particular research fields are Chinese political and economic elites, the globalization of Chinese firms and Chinese engagements with Europe; American political and economic elites and US foreign policy, US-China relations, and the politics and political economy of oil. She publishes in leading journals in International Relations, International Political Economy, and Sociology (e.g. Review of International Political Economy, European Journal of International Relations, International Affairs, Global Networks) and with publishers like Routledge and Cambridge University Press.

Nana De Graaff is Chair of the China in Europe Research Network (CHERN), a Europe-wide network aimed at pooling, exchanging, disseminating and generating research on Chinese socio-economic engagements with Europe. She is Principal Investigator of a Vidi research project titled ‘Globalization Unravelling? The Geopolitics of Europe-China Tech Decoupling’ funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and leads ReGlobe. De Graaff is member of the SASE Executive Council and co-organiser of Network Q, she is co-editor of the Routledge RIPE Series in Global Political Economy and advisory board member for International Affairs and The International Spectator.

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Imogen T. Liu

Imogen T. Liu is Assistant Professor of International Political Economy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her current research is animated by questions surrounding the politics and governance of finance, production and energy systems under conditions of heightened geopolitical competition with particular focus on the role of transnational firms in China, Europe and Global South economies. She is an Independent Social Research Foundation Early Career Fellow and she has published in journals across the disciplines of political economy, geography and development studies, including New Political Economy, Journal of Economic Geography, Dialogues in Human Geography, Socio-Economic Review, Development and Change and Finance and Space.

Frankfurt Institute of Social Research / East-West Center

Boy Lüthje

Boy Lüthje is Senior Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute of Social Research and a visiting scholar at the East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii. His research focuses on the political economy of global production networks, innovation, and work. His interest in China and Southeast Asia developed in the course of his research on global production and work in the IT industry during the recent decade. He recently completed an extensive research project on regimes of production and industrial relations in China’s manufacturing industries. Together with Tobias ten Brink and Christopher McNally (East-West Center) he is conducting a major research project on China’s new capitalism and its perspectives of economic and social re-balancing.

Constructor University

Tobias ten Brink

Tobias ten Brink is Professor of Chinese Economy and Society at Constructor University in Bremen. His research focuses on China and large emerging economies.

South China University of Technology

Wei Zhao

Wei Zhao is Professor and Director of Center for Economy and Technology Policy at Institute of Public Policy, South China University of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Economics (2006) from the University of Paris III and Master of Sociology (1995) and B.S. (1992) from Sun Yat-sen University. His main research interests are within policy and management of industry, technology, and innovation. His current research fields are Chinese new energy vehicle sector, Chinese new regional innovation policy, and Europe-China relations. He publishes in international journals such as International Journal of Automotive Technology and Management, Post-Communist Economies, Industry and Innovation, International Journal of Technology Management, Science and Public Policy and contributes to books with Palgrave Macmillan. Wei Zhao was professor at two Business Schools in France for 16 years. Now based in South China, he is also an associated fellow with ESSCA EU-Asia Institute and Centre d’économie de l’Université Paris Nord (CEPN) in France.