Dr. Alessandro Arduino is the co-director of the Security & Crisis Management program at the Shanghai Academy of Social Science (SASS-UNITO) and external affiliate at the Lau China Institute, King’s College London. Dr. Arduino's two decades of experience in China encompasses security analysis and crisis management.
Dr. Xue Gong is a Research Fellow with China Programme at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. She received her PhD from NTU in 2017. Her main research interests include China’s economic diplomacy, Belt and Road Initiative, China’s economic relations with Southeast Asia, China’s SOEs reforms and corporate social responsibility.