CEASG welcomes Cristina Pinna as Marie Curie fellow

CEASG welcomes Dr. Cristina Pinna as Marie Curie fellow.

Dr. Cristina Pinna has been awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie-Individual Fellowship within the Career Restart Panel. She has started working at the Faculty of Arts, Department of International Relations and Organization on November 1 2022, under the supervision of Prof Jan van der Harst, Chair of the European Integration and Academic Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Groningen. The Fellowship's purpose is to make a comparative assessment of China’s soft power strategy in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and investigating how a group of selected European countries (Italy, the Netherlands and Hungary) and the EU are engaging with China.

In the past two years, Cristina worked as Assistant Professor in Chinese Studies for the University of Sassari in Italy. Prior to this position, Cristina has also worked for almost 7 years as a Senior Policy Advisor for the United Nations Development Programme in China. She was in charge of leading the policy research portfolio on issues related to Global Governance and China (with special focus on the BRI, the G20 and BRICS) and supporting the strengthening of strategic partnerships with the Chinese government and key financial institutions located in China (such as the China Development Bank and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank) for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Before joining UNDP, in 2012-2013, she collaborated as co-investigator for a UNESCO pilot project with the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2010-12 she was awarded the EU-China Science and Technology Fellowship, hosted by Peking University, China. Cristina defended her PhD in History, Institutions and International Relations of modern and contemporary Asia and Africa at the University of Cagliari, Italy, and conducted her post-doctoral studies at the University of Toronto, Canada.