Silvia Menegazzi is a political scientist and sinologist who works on Chinese foreign policy and public diplomacy. She is EAVI Fellow at the East Asia National Research Center at George Washington University and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome, where she teaches International Relations and Chinese Studies.
Menegazzi lived in China for four years and has spent long periods of time in Chinese universities (Nankai University, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Renmin University, East China Normal University). Her research interests cut across international politics and area studies with a focus on contemporary China, non-governmental actors, and international institutions. She is the author of Rethinking Think Tanks in Contemporary China (Palgrave, 2018). Menegazzi holds an M.A. in Asian Studies from La Sapienza University, an M.Sc. in International Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), and a Ph.D. in Political Theory from Luiss Guido Carli University.
