• Core Partners

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    Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI)

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    Center for Security, Strategic and Integration Studies, CASSIS (Bonn University)

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    Greater Bay Area AI and Society Research Institute (Hong Kong)

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    Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI)

  • Sponsors

    Matthias Schäfer

    Matthias Schäfer was the General Representative of the Shanghai Office of the Adenner Foundation (Germany). His areas of expertise include social market economy, public finance, labour market politics, social politics and so on. Matthias Schäfer studied law and business administration at the Universities of Tübingen (Germany) and Grenoble (France) .Prior to joining the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation in March 2003, Matthias Schäfer worked at the ministries of finance of the state of Berlin and Baden-Württemberg in the department of budget control and taxation. Before, he was junior consulter at Public Sector of Kienbaum Consulting in Düsseldorf (Germany) and junior auditor at Coopers & Lybrand in Frankfurt (Germany)

    Dingding Chen

    Dingding Chen is Professor of International Relations, Associate Dean of Institute for 21st Century Silk Road Studies at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, and Non-Resident Fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) Berlin, Germany; and SAIS at Johns Hopkins Univeristy. He was the Vice-President of International Studies Association (Asia Pacific region 2014-2018). He is also the Founding Director of Intellisia Institute, a newly established independent think tank focusing on international affairs in China. His research interests include Chinese foreign policy, Asian security, Chinese politics, and human rights. His articles have appeared in International Studies Quarterly, International Security, Journal of Contemporary China, Chinese Journal of International Politics, and The Washington Quarterly. He is the co-editor of a book on international engagement with human rights in China. Before teaching at university of Macau between 2009 and 2016, he was a visiting instructor in the government department at Dartmouth College and was also a China and the World Program Fellow at Harvard University. He holds a bachelor’s degree in international economics from the Renmin University of China and a master’s degree and PhD in political science from the University of Chicago.

    Maximilian Mayer

    Maximilian Mayer (he/him, German) is Junior-Professor of International Relations and Global Politics of Technology at University of Bonn. His research interests include the global politics of science and technology; China’s foreign and energy policy; global energy and climate politics; theories of International Relations. Maximilian has authored seven books including China’s Energy Thirst: Myth or Reality? (2007 together with Xuewu Gu), Changing orders: transdiciplinary analysis of global and local realities (2008, co-editer), two-volumes on The Global Politics of Science and Technology (2014, lead editor). He is coeditor of Art and Sovereignty in Global Politics (Palgrave, 2016) and edited Rethinking the Silk-Road: Chinas Belt and Road Initiative and Emerging Eurasian Relations (Palgrave, 2018). Maximilian served as section co-chair of STAIR (Science, Technology, Arts and international relations) of the International Studies Association (2015-2017) and STAIR program chair (2014-2015). Maximilian is currently leading the research group on „Infrastructures of China’s Modernity and Their Global Constitutive Effects”, funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

    Jennifer Lin

    Fen Jennifer Lin is Associate Professor in Media and Communication and Assistant Dean of Chow Yei Ching School of Graduate Studies at City University of Hong Kong. She has written extensively and bilingually on media and political communication, information governance, state-society relations, empirical studies of litigations, China’s innovation system, and social and cultural change. Her articles have appeared in various academic journals across disciplines of sociology, media, law, political sciences and China studies as well as in magazines and newspapers. She is also a founder of Greater Bay Area AI and Society Research Institute (AISRI), an idea-sharing network aiming to nurture the interdisciplinary dialogues on AI development in Hong Kong, mainland China and Europe and to foster knowledge transfers among stakeholders. Dr. Lin gained her B.A in economics at Peking University, and her M.S. in statistics and PhD in sociology at the University of Chicago.

    Denise Feldner

    CEO IP-tec.Co a Think Tank Consultancy for Digital Governance and Co-Founder AISRI