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Tim Rühlig
Dr Tim Rühlig joined the Institute in September 2024 as the Senior Analyst for Global China.
Tim's research focuses on China's foreign, economic and technology policy, EU-China relations, economic security, German-China policy, and Hong Kong affairs. He is also working on the politicisation of technical standard-setting and China's role as a security actor in the Pacific and beyond.
Before joining the EUISS, Tim worked at the European Commission for DG I.D.E.A., the in-house advisor hub of President Ursula von der Leyen, with a focus on China's technology policy. Previously, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) and a Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI).
Tim is the founder of the Digital Power China (DPC) research consortium that brings together European engineers, computer scientists as well as China scholars and economists. He is the chairman of the Working Group on "high technology and innovation" of the China in Europe Research Network's (CHERN), an EU Cost Action. Tim is a participant of the European Think-tank Network on China (ETNC), which he coordinated in 2018.
Among his publications is the monograph "China's Foreign Policy Contradictions" which appeared in 2022 with Oxford University Press.
Tim received a B.A. in Political Science and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Tübingen, an M.A. in International Relations and Peace and Conflict Research from the Goethe University of Frankfurt and the Technical University of Darmstadt as well as a Ph.D. from the University of Frankfurt.
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