Eva Seiwert

Chinese foreign policy and China Horizons project coordination

Eva Seiwert is an analyst in the Foreign Relations team and is a project coordinator for the EU-funded China Horizons (“Dealing with a resurgent China”) consortium at MERICS. Previously, Eva was a postdoctoral research fellow in the project “Academic freedom, globalized scholarship and the rise of authoritarian China” at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and managing editor of 9Dashline. She gathered working experience at Freie Universität Berlin, Universität Leipzig, King’s College in London and the OSCE Academy in Bishkek. Eva holds a PhD from Freie Universität Berlin exploring the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and China’s strategy of shaping international norms. She studied at Lanzhou University in China and was a visiting researcher at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.