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Ivana KARASKOVA China Research Fellow and Project Coordinator, Association for International Affairs (AMO), Prague

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 Ivana Karásková is a China Research Fellow at the Association for International Affairs (AMO), Prague-based foreign policy think tank. She founded ChinfluenCE, an international project mapping China’s influence in Central Europe, revealing e.g. links between Czech politicians and pro-China lobby. ChinfluenCE results were presented at European Parliament, to Members of US Congress, and quoted by international press. She also designed and coordinates China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe (CHOICE) platform. Ivana holds university degrees in Journalism and International Relations; she finishes her Ph.D. at Charles University where she lectures on China’s geopolitics, EU-China relations and security in Northeast Asia. Ivana completed research and study stays in China, Taiwan and US (Fulbright scholar at Columbia University). She is an alumna of the US State Department’s International Visitors Program on Investment Screening Mechanism and a member of China expert pool at the European Center of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats.