Andrew Small is the director of the Asia programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations, based in the Berlin office. He was previously a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund’s Indo-Pacific programme, based in Brussels, Berlin and Washington DC. He worked in 2023-2024 as the first China fellow at IDEA, the advisory hub that reports to the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen. He is the author of “The Rupture”, also titled “No Limits”, about the transformation of European and American policy toward China, which was named one of the Financial Times’ 2022 Politics Books of the Year. He also wrote, in 2015, “The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia’s New Geopolitics”.
His articles and papers have been published in Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, and several other journals, magazines and newspapers. He has provided congressional testimony on a number of occasions, including to the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
He has been a visiting fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Takshashila Institution, and in the office of Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Small was educated at Balliol College, University of Oxford.
