Jakub Jakóbowski

Jakub Jakobwski is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW) and the head of the China Department, having previosly served as the coordinator of the „Connectivity in Eurasia” project and a Senior Fellow on China’s economy. Formerly a Taiwan Fellow at Soochow University in Taipei and a European China Policy Fellow at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS). He holds a PhD in political science from the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), based on a dissertation on China’s foreign economic policy towards the Global South. He gives lectures at the Warsaw University and the Warsaw School of Economics. Member of a number of international projects and associations, including the Think Visegrad, China Observers in Central Europe (CHOICE) and the Horizon 2020 EU-STRAT project. In 2012-2015 he worked as an exports consultant for Polish small and medium-sized enterprises in East Asia and the Commonwealth of Independent States markets.

Publications:

• China’s foreign economic policy
• Transport, digital and energy connectivity in Eurasia
• International political economy
• China’s economic and political relations with Central and Eastern Europe and the European Union

Major publications:

• The Beijing-Moscow axis, The foundations of an asymmetric Alliance, „OSW Report”, November 2021.
• The Chinese Communist Party and its state. Xi Jinping's conservative turn, “OSW Report”, September 2019.
• Building closer connections. The Three Seas region as an economic area, Polish Economic Institute, August 2020.
• The effects of China’s economic expansion on Eastern Partnership countries, EU-STRAT Working Paper Series, April 2019.
• The Silk Railroad. The EU-China rail connections: background, actors, interests, „OSW Studies”, March 2018.
• Chinese-led Regional Multilateralism in Central and Eastern Europe, Africa and Latin America: 16 + 1, FOCAC, and CCF, “Journal of Contemporary China”, 2018, Vol.27, Issue 113, s. 659-673.
• The drifting of China’s reforms. Economic policy during Xi Jinping’s first term, „OSW Point of View”, April 2017.