Head of Prague Office
Filip Šebok is the Head of the Prague Office of the Central European Institute of Asian Studies, a think tank that focuses on foreign policy, economy, and security issues related to East Asia. Filip's research primarily looks at Chinese domestic and foreign policy, especially relations between China and Central and Eastern European countries and China’s propaganda and disinformation. Filip graduated in International Relations and Chinese Cultural Studies at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, and Renmin University in Beijing, studying in a full-time program taught in Mandarin. He is also an incoming PhD. student at the Asian Studies Department of the Palacký University in Olomouc. Previously, Filip worked as a China Research Fellow and Project Manager on the MapInfluenCE and China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe (CHOICE) projects at the Association for International Affairs (AMO) and the editor of all CHOICE publications. He was already affiliated with CEIAS between 2014 and 2019. Moreover, Filip also worked for Stratpol (Adapt Institute) and has co-organized several short term academic programs on international relations. Filip was a Fall 2022 CEPA James S. Denton Fellow in Washington, D.C. He is also an individual member of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE) Expert Pool. Filip is an author of several reports, analyses and book chapters, including in in the Routledge volume 'Contemporary China A New Superpower?'. Research interests: Chinese domestic and foreign policy, relations between China and CEE countries, Chinese propaganda and disinformation
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