Dr. Chuchu Zhang is an Associate Professor at School of International Relations and Public Affairs, and Deputy Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, at Fudan University, China. She is also Adjunct Professor at ESSCA School of Management, France. She received her PhD in Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, UK. Her research focuses on China-Middle Eastern relations, China’s foreign policy, and geoeconomics. She is author of Islamist Party Mobilization: Tunisia’s Ennahda and Algeria’s HMS Compared, 1989-2014 (Palgrave, 2020). She has published in a number of peer reviewed journals including International Relations, The Pacific Review, Mediterranean Politics, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Middle East Policy, Environment and Planning: Economy and Space, Globalizations, and Pacific Focus.


