Ludovica Meacci is a Ph.D. researcher at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and an Associate Fellow at the Royal United Service Institute (RUSI). Her research focuses on Chinese technology policy and U.S.-EU-China relations. She holds an M.Sc. in Contemporary China Studies from SOAS University of London and was a 2017 Yenching Scholar at Peking University. Before starting her Ph.D., she worked on Chinese foreign policy and EU-Asia relations in different roles, including at the Secretariat of the European Parliament, the Mercator Institute for China Studies, and Jane’s Information Group. She also worked as a freelance journalist and analyst. Her work has appeared in the Financial Times, South China Morning Post, Foreign Policy, and ISPI, among others.

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