The European Chamber is happy to invite you a discussion with expert Mr. Tim Rühlig on China’s standardisation activities and their impact in Europe. Mr. Rühlig is a Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs since 2018. His work focuses on EU-China relations as well as Chinese foreign policy. He is researching China’s foreign economic policy and its implications for Europe in general and the role of technical standardisation in particular. Mr. Rühlig holds a PhD from the University of Frankfurt in which he investigated how the Chinese party-state copes with globalization and the transformation of the state. In 2018, he was the coordinator of the European Think Tank Network on China (ETNC) and lead editor of the network’s annual report assessing the role of political values in Europe-China relations. Mr. Rühlig is also a management committee member of the new-found "China in Europe Research Network" funded by the European Union. He has been a visiting research fellow to several institutions including the China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing and the European Institute for Asian Studies in Brussels. Previously, he has studied political science, cultural anthropology, international relations and peace and conflict research. He was a research associate at the Cluster of Excellence “The formation of normative orders” in Frankfurt and has worked on political implications of social media discourses in China.

The meeting will take place on Tuesday, 5^th November 2019, from 9:00 to 10:30 at the European Chamber’s Beijing offices You are welcome to attend by registering with Ms. Ester Cañada Amela at ecamela@europeanchamber.com.cn before Monday, 4^th November COB. Please find below the tentative agenda for the event.

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