Alice Politi is a PhD student at the Lau China Institute. Her doctoral research focuses on EU-China relations, with a particular focus on China’s Belt and Road Initiative. She graduated from her master’s in Language and Management to China at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where she specialised in Chinese Studies and International Law. A recipient of the Hanban Scholarship, she has also studied at Fudan University in Shanghai. She previously graduated with First Class Honours from her bachelor’s in Chinese and International Relations at Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan.
Alessandro Strozzi, Aspen Junior Fellow, is part of the ISPI Future Leaders Program. Alessandro holds a N-Executive Master in Strategic Affairs and a Master of Arts in International Public Affairs at LUISS School of Government. He is a teaching assistant at the N-Executive Master in Lobbying at the LUISS Business School. He is an advisor in the fields of institutional relations and national security.