Matej Šimalčík

Matej Šimalčík is CELIS Country Reporter for Slovakia. Matej Šimalčík is the Executive Director of the Central European Institute of Asian Studies, a think tank that focuses on foreign and security policy issues related to East Asia. Matej’s research looks at China’s economic and political presence and influence in Central Europe, elite relations, corrosive capital…

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Lars-Göran Larsson

Lars-Göran Larsson is Senior Advisor and Head of FDI Screening (Act.) at the Swedish Inspectorate of Strategic Products, ISP. It is the Swedish agency under the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, for export control and certain sanctions and embagoes. ISP is also Sweden´s Contact Point in the EU for FDI Screening under Regulation (EU) 2019/452, and…

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Francesca Ghiretti

Francesca Ghiretti covers EU-China relations with a focus on economic security and China’s global investments. Before joining MERICS, she worked as a Research Fellow Asia at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) in Rome leading a project on the Belt and Road Initiative in Italy. Previously, she also worked as a geopolitical analyst for CQS, a…

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Tania Voon

Tania Voon is CELIS Country Reporter for Australia. Tania Voon is Professor and former Associate Dean (Research) at Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne. She was previously a Legal Officer in the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat. She has practised law with King & Wood Mallesons and the Australian Government Solicitor and taught law at…

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Institute for Democracy “Societas Civilis” – Skopje (IDSCS)

 The Institute for Democracy “Societas Civilis” – Skopje (IDSCS) is a Macedonian based think-tank organisation that is non-governmental, non-partisan and non-profit. It was established in 1999 by a group of intellectuals gathered around the idea of democracy, solidarity and civil society. The long term objectives of the Institute include the work on a balanced socio-economic…

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Swedish Institute of International Law (SIFIR)

The Swedish Institute of International Law was founded by a donation from the Swedish diplomat Harry Axelsson Iohnson in 1927. The Institute is also called the Harry Axelsson Iohnson Institute. Mr. Iohnson was of the opinion that peace among nations depended much upon the development of international law and its dissemination to a wider public.…

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Nefeli Douma

Nefeli Douma is CELIS Country Reporter for the United Kingdom. Nefeli Douma is a Legal Adviser at HM Treasury, currently in Markets, Infrastructure and Other Financial Services, and previously in Trade and Negotiations.  Her research interests focus on UK and EU financial regulation as well as on international trade (WTO) and investment law and international dispute…

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Marta Nunes Vincente

Marta is CELIS Assistant Country Reporter for Portugal. Marta Vicente has a Law degree from the Coimbra Faculty of Law (2009), a master’s degree in Administrative law (2011) and a Ph.D in Public law from the same institution (2021). Between 2012 and 2015, she worked as an advisor to the Portuguese Constitutional Court Judge’s Office.…

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Rebecca Vikjær-Andresen

Rebecca Vikjær-Andresen has extensive experience in the Danish FDI rules and has dealt with the rules from many different angles, including the application process, pre-screening, risk assessments, drafting contract clauses to handle FDI related issues, handling of approval requirement in public tender procedures as well as planning internal procedures at enterprises and authorities to identify…

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Sabrina Robert-Cuendet

Sabrina Robert is Professor of International Law at Le Mans University. She is member of the research centre Themis-Um of Le Mans University and associated member of the Institute of Research in International and European Law of the Sorbonne Law School. She is a member of the French Branch of the International Law Association and…

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Eish Taneja

Eish Taneja is currently professor of Law for International Business & Corporate Securities Law in Lal Baldur Institute of Management based in New Delhi. He teaches and researches in the areas of international economic law, esp. international investment law, Indian laws. He is also faculty at the University of GDGU and also faculty at NDIM,…

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Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)

Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE). Founded in 1983 and based in Washington, DC, CIPE is a business-oriented NGO working at the intersection of economic development and entrepreneurship with democracy and good governance. CIPE maintains a network of partners, including business associations, chambers of commerce, think tanks and other civil society organizations in over 70…

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BLOMSTEIN Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten mbB Stein Friton Klasse Huttenlauch

BLOMSTEIN is a leading boutique for international trade, antitrust, and public procurement law based in Berlin, Germany. Founded as a spin-off of a leading international law firm in 2016, BLOMSTEIN “has positioned itself at the top of the market within a few years”, according to clients and peers. The experienced team advises high-profile international clients…

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Datenna BV

About Datenna Datenna builds data intelligence platforms for government intelligence gathering and decision- making on China. By analysing how governments screen Chinese investments, perform export control, and map out scientific progress, they found that with the existing technologies and databases, it is impossible to obtain a complete picture of China’s fast-developing economy. Datenna identified the…

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Henning Berger

Alejandra Torres Camprubí (Ph.D., Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; LL.M, University College London), is an international dispute resolution attorney in Foley Hoag’s International Litigation and Arbitration Department, admitted to practice in the Madrid Bar as well as the Paris Bar as an EU lawyer. She focuses her practice on public international law and international investment arbitration and…

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Christoph Arhold

Christoph Arhold is counsel at the Berlin and Brussels offices of White & Case LLP. His  main practice areas are German and European competition law, including mergers, cartels and-in particular-State aid. He also has substantial experience in other fields of EU and national law with international dimensions such as export control law and more and…

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Bartosz Soloch

Alejandra Torres Camprubí (Ph.D., Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; LL.M, University College London), is an international dispute resolution attorney in Foley Hoag’s International Litigation and Arbitration Department, admitted to practice in the Madrid Bar as well as the Paris Bar as an EU lawyer. She focuses her practice on public international law and international investment arbitration and…

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Alexandr Svetlicinii

Alejandra Torres Camprubí (Ph.D., Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; LL.M, University College London), is an international dispute resolution attorney in Foley Hoag’s International Litigation and Arbitration Department, admitted to practice in the Madrid Bar as well as the Paris Bar as an EU lawyer. She focuses her practice on public international law and international investment arbitration and…

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Rahmi Kopar

Alejandra Torres Camprubí (Ph.D., Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; LL.M, University College London), is an international dispute resolution attorney in Foley Hoag’s International Litigation and Arbitration Department, admitted to practice in the Madrid Bar as well as the Paris Bar as an EU lawyer. She focuses her practice on public international law and international investment arbitration and…

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Jaap van Etten

Jaap van Etten is CEO and co-founder of Datenna, a company building software platforms for economic intelligence on China exclusively for governments. With a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a Master’s degree in Innovation Policy, Jaap worked as a Dutch diplomat in China for over a decade, focusing on the Chinese innovation landscape. While…

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Sophie Meunier

Alejandra Torres Camprubí (Ph.D., Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; LL.M, University College London), is an international dispute resolution attorney in Foley Hoag’s International Litigation and Arbitration Department, admitted to practice in the Madrid Bar as well as the Paris Bar as an EU lawyer. She focuses her practice on public international law and international investment arbitration and…

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Francesco Cazzini

Alejandra Torres Camprubí (Ph.D., Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; LL.M, University College London), is an international dispute resolution attorney in Foley Hoag’s International Litigation and Arbitration Department, admitted to practice in the Madrid Bar as well as the Paris Bar as an EU lawyer. She focuses her practice on public international law and international investment arbitration and…

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Claus Zimmermann

Alejandra Torres Camprubí (Ph.D., Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; LL.M, University College London), is an international dispute resolution attorney in Foley Hoag’s International Litigation and Arbitration Department, admitted to practice in the Madrid Bar as well as the Paris Bar as an EU lawyer. She focuses her practice on public international law and international investment arbitration and…

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Adam Dixon

Alejandra Torres Camprubí (Ph.D., Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; LL.M, University College London), is an international dispute resolution attorney in Foley Hoag’s International Litigation and Arbitration Department, admitted to practice in the Madrid Bar as well as the Paris Bar as an EU lawyer. She focuses her practice on public international law and international investment arbitration and…

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Alejandra Torres Camprubí

Alejandra Torres Camprubí (Ph.D., Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; LL.M, University College London), is an international dispute resolution attorney in Foley Hoag’s International Litigation and Arbitration Department, admitted to practice in the Madrid Bar as well as the Paris Bar as an EU lawyer. She focuses her practice on public international law and international investment arbitration and…

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