Asia Centre had the pleasure of welcoming Valbona Zeneli, PhD, nonresident senior fellow and Zoltán Fehér, PhD, nonresident fellow, both at the Atlantic Council.
As The Atlantic Council’s Europe Center and Global China Hub are conducting a joint project investigating how geopolitical trends shape European policies on China, the project’s two principal investigators traveled to Paris to conduct off-the-record interviews with policymakers and experts. With Jean-François Di Meglio, head of Asia Centre, and Arnaud Leveau, PhD, they shared views on how major geopolitical trends impact France’s policies on China.
Valbona Zeneli, PhD is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center and at the Transatlantic Security Initiative of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. She is also a visiting scholar for 2023-2024 at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. From 2011 to 2023, she served as a professor of national security studies and chair of strategic engagements at the US Department of Defense’s George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies where she continues her affiliation as an visiting adjunct professor. Zeneli is a also a visiting fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
Zoltán Fehér, PhD is a diplomat-scholar-geostrategist and a nonresident fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub with more than twenty years of experience working in government, academia, and the private sector on international relations, foreign policy, grand strategy, and geopolitical risk, with special focus on the United States, China, and Central and Eastern Europe.