Jing Men is the InBev-Baillet Latour Chair of European Union-China Relations at the College of Europe. She also works for the Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She has specialised, researched and widely taught on EU-China relations and Chinese foreign policy. She has organised two international conferences on the EU's external relations in Bruges and founded an e-journal, The EU-China Observer, which has been recognised as an important think tank publication in this field.
Giuseppe Balducci is currently Programme Officer for the Italian Development Cooperation Office in Afghanistan. He is a former Research Assistant of the InBev-Baillet Latour Chair of European Union-China Relations at the College of Europe. He is also a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. His main research interests include EU-China relations and Asian politics.