Alice Ekman

Dr 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. At the EUISS, 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).

Alice was formerly Head of China Research 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). She holds a Master's in International Relations, Economics, and Anthropology (China focus) from the London School of Economics (LSE) and a PhD in International Relations from Sciences Po and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.