Lenka de Mauro remembers the images she saw on television as a 9-year-old: In the winter of 1989, students rattling bunches of keys symbolically heralded the end of socialism in Czechoslovakia and opened the way to Europe. Today, 34 years later, de Mauro herself works in Brussels, the heart of European politics. She represents the […]
For a long time, William Lai was clearly leading in all polls. Lai is running for the China-critical Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in the Taiwanese presidential election on Jan. 13. In view of the divided opposition, some observers were already predicting that Lai could “win the election lying down”. That is now a thing of […]
Canada’s environment minister Steven Guilbeault arrives at this year’s COP28 conference in Dubai amid a tumultuous time at home. A recent federal audit found his government is not on track to meet its 2030 emissions reductions target. The long-awaited policy to put a cap on emissions from Canada’s oil and gas sector has yet to […]
In June 2023, Saber Hossain Chowdhury was appointed Bangladesh’s Special Envoy on Climate Change. It is the pinnacle of a political career. The 62-year-old has long campaigned for social justice and was even arrested and tortured for it.Chowdhury’s new role comes at a critical time for climate-vulnerable nations like Bangladesh, where tens of millions of […]
Hou Yu-ih is firmly back in the race. After the controversy that prevented a joint opposition candidate from being nominated, he can once again run freely as the candidate for the National People’s Party (Kuomintang, KMT) without having to compromise with political rivals. In a recent opinion poll, he is only just behind William Lai […]
Daniel Tesic has been the new Digital Products GTM Lead at Chinese car manufacturer NIO in Munich since the beginning of the month. Tesic previously worked at Xpeng and Volkswagen, among others. Nathaniel Kempster is the new Global Network Manager for China, East Asia and Oceania at the Austrian logistics company Gebrueder Weiss. Kempster was […]
Jochen Goller, most recently President and CEO of the BMW Group Region China, has moved to a new job as of November 1. He is now responsible for Customer, Brands, Sales on the Board of Management of BMW AG. “With Jochen Goller, we are appointing an internationally experienced sales manager to the Board of Management […]
François Godement is a historian, sinologist and France’s leading expert on relations between China and the EU. As a professor of political science, he has taught at the University of California, Sciences Po and the Inalco Asia Institute in Paris. Today, he is a consultant on China and Asia at the Institut Montaigne in Paris […]
Serhan Kurt is now Head of Purchasing for the EU division at the Chinese battery manufacturer SVOLT in Frankfurt am Main. He joined from Diehl Metall, where he was responsible for supply chain processes.Bertil Abel from EU Asia Consulting has joined the China Netzwerk Baden-Württemberg e.V. (CNBW). Abel is an expert in supply chain organization […]
Liang Jian has moved from Bankhaus Hauck & Aufhaeuser to Banque Internationale à Luxembourg. She worked for Commerzbank for a long time, including in Beijing.Zhu Hexin is being considered for the top job at the foreign exchange authority SAFE, according to a Reuters report. Zhu was actually supposed to become head of the central bank, […]