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 London-based hedge fund and as assistant to Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, former Secretary General of NATO. Ghiretti holds a PhD from King’s College London, where she is a Leverhulme fellow at the Centre for Grand Strategy.