Alicja Bachulska

Alicja Bachulska is a policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, based in the Warsaw office. Her areas of expertise include EU-China relations, China’s relations with central and eastern European countries, Sino-Russian relations, and Beijing’s influence abroad. In the past she has also cooperated with numerous research institutions, including the Mercator Institute for China Studies, the Center for European Policy Analysis, the Association for International Affairs, and Freedom House. Together with Mark Leonard and Janka Oertel, Bachulska recently co-authored The Idea of China, a book based on over 100 interviews with Chinese intellectuals and published by ECFR. Bachulska holds a PhD from the Graduate School for Social Research at the Polish Academy of Sciences. She graduated from the London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) with a BA in Chinese and development studies and completed a master’s in international politics (Chinese politics and diplomacy) at Fudan University, Shanghai.

Expertise: EU-China relations, China-Central and Eastern Europe relations, China-Russia relations, Chinese society