About
Dr Alice Ekman is the EUISS Research Director. She responsible for coordinating the Institute’s research activities, maximising their policy relevance and impact.
Additionally, she oversees the reinforcement of the Paris-based strand of EUISS activities, and will continue to develop her research portfolio on China and security dynamics in East Asia.
Previously, Alice Ekman was the Senior Analyst in charge of the Asia portfolio at the EUISS. She covered foreign policy and security developments in the Asian region – including in China, the Korean Peninsula, Japan, India and ASEAN. Alice also managed regular ‘Track 1,5’ dialogues with the EU’s partners in Asia and coordinated the EU member committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP EU).
Before that, Alice was formerly Head of China Activities at the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri) in Paris. She has also been a Visiting Scholar at Tsinghua University (Beijing), at the National Taiwan Normal University (Taipei) and the Asan Institute for Policy Studies (Seoul).
Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, she holds a Master's in International Relations, Economics, and Anthropology from the London School of Economics (LSE), a PhD in International Relations from Sciences Po and an Accreditation to Supervise Research (French ‘HDR’, allowing supervision of PhD thesis).
She is the author of several books in French language on China’s domestic and foreign policy, including “La Chine dans le Monde” (CNRS Editions, 2018), “Rouge Vif – l’Idéal communiste chinois” (L’Observatoire, best geopolitical book of the year 2020), “Dernier vol pour Pékin” (L’Observatoire, 2022), “Chine-Russie, le grand Rapprochement” (Gallimard, 2023).