Dr. JIN Ling is a Senior Research fellow and Director of the Department for European Studies, China Institute of International Studies (CIIS), the think tank of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
She has considerable expertise in issues of EU integration and China-EU relations, and has published many papers in this regard. She has previously served as chair of a research project on China-EU-Africa relations, and since the launch of the Belt and Road Initiative, she has focused her research largely on this strategy.
Her “Comparative Study between BRI and Marshall Plan” and “Synergies between the Belt and Road Initiative and 2030 SDGs” publications have drawn wide attention among scholars from both in China and abroad. Her other recent publications include “EU foreign policy in transition”, “EU new approaches to global governance and its impact on China-EU cooperation”, etc.