Head of Prague Office
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. He 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 currently pursuing his PhD. at the Asian Studies Department of the Palacký University in Olomouc. Between 2019 and 2024, 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), including as the editor of all CHOICE publications. He was already affiliated with CEIAS between 2014 and 2019 and also previously worked for Stratpol (now Adapt Institute). Filip was a Fall 2022 CEPA James S. Denton Fellow in Washington, D.C. and is an individual member of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE) Expert Pool. Filip is the author of several reports, analyses and book chapters, including 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
