Lin Yue holds a PhD in the socio-economy of development and undertook his graduate studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS Paris). He is now full-time associate professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and is attached to the Centro de Estuidos de Asia Oriental. His current research interests include among others China’s overseas investment and international trade, internationalization of Chinese companies and behavior pattern facing institutional frictions. He has published in journals, such as China Economic Review, China & World Economy, Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies.
Her research interests oscillate around the creative economy, professional arts and culture labour market, and the impact of short-term mobility on the further development of artists' careers and culture as a factor for the sustainable development of cities.
She has been associated with CCI for over 12 years. Since 2018 she has been a member of the steering committee of UNESCO Creative Cities Network. Currently, she is the director of Music Export Poland, the advisor to the Board of the Society of Authors ZAiKS and coordinator of the Europena Music Exporters Exchange network As an independent consultant for the development of creative industries, she has been cooperating with a number of cities across the world.
He got PhD degree from Charles University in Prague for researching Chinese avant-garde literature of the 1980s. He published articles about the authors like Ma Yuan and Can Xue and the relationship between their works and the era in in which they were published. His research interest has always been Chinese and Taiwanese culture and socio-political history. František translated a number of books and shorter works from Chinese to Czech, from which the most important are professors Kang-I Sun Chang’s (孫康宜) memoir Journey through the White Terror (走出白色恐怖; 2021), a collection of short stories and essays by Chinese woman writer Can Xue (殘雪; 2013), and the ongoing translation project of the comics series Cattedamerung (貓劍客) by Yeh Yu-Tung (葉羽桐). He is an active contributor to the project Sinopsis.
His research engages China’s Economy and economic history, China’s Energy Security and raw materials, International and Asian Finance and banking sector.