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Staff Profile: Thomas Koenig

Recent Commentary

• A guide to China’s leadership changes
  29 Oct 12

Recent Blogs

• All eyes on Hong Kong
  11 Jun 13
• Kim Jong-un seeks to blackmail West to support regime
  10 Apr 13
• On the ground in Guangzhou
  30 May 12
• The fall of a princeling; the fall of the Chongqing model?
  21 Feb 12

recent press

• Russia Today
  28 May 13
• Beijing Daily
  10 Apr 13
• City A.M.
  11 Mar 13
• Open Democracy
  24 Jan 13

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Thomas König is the ECFR's China Programme co-ordinator. 

He works on the increasing ECFR's profile in this area, expanding the programme's activities and contributes to ECFR's China research. After having worked for the political section of the German Embassy in Beijing, he first joined ECFR in April 2011 to assist in the research and publication of the ECFR's report 'The Scramble for Europe'. He returned to the ECFR in 2012 after having worked for the Rising Powers and Global Governance section of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin as well as the Multilateral Diplomacy Programme at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in Geneva.

Along EU-China relations, his research work focuses on East Asian security relations and implications to China's foreign policy.

Thomas majored in Political Science with a focus on East Asian Studies at Yale University and completed a semester at Peking University, specializing in Chinese foreign policy and rule of law reform. He holds a master’s degree in International Studies & Diplomacy from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

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Tel. +44 (0)2072276884

Mob. +44 (0)77 8600 8726

Twitter: Follow @thomasokoenig