Assoc.-Prof.Dr.SebastianBersick
Nationality:German


RELEVANTEXPERIENCE
Since11/2012
ExecutiveDirector,CentreforChina-EURelations,School
ofInternationalRelationsandPublicAffairs,Fudan
University,Shanghai
-Responsibleforacademicandoperationalaffairs
Since10/2011AssociateProfessor,SchoolofInternationalRelationsand
PublicAffairs,FudanUniversity,Shanghai(seeAnnex1for
lectureshipsandAnnexIIforpublications)
09/2009-09/2011UniversityCollegeLecturer,NationalUniversityofIreland,
Cork,DepartmentofGovernment
Since08/2009AssociateFellow,GermanCouncilonForeignRelations
(DGAP),Berlin,ProgrammeChinaandAsia-Pacific
-ProjectCoordinatoroftheinternationalresearchproject
onEuropeanperceptionsofAsia(“AsiaintheEyesof
Europe”);
-CoordinatingtheactivitiesofConsortiumpartners
(ASEF,NCRE,DGAP,KAS,TsinghuaUniversity);
-Coordinationwith8Europeannationalresearch
partnersinAustria,Belgium,Denmark,France,
Germany,Italy,Romania,UK;
04/2007-07/2009Associate,AsiaDivision,GermanInstituteforInternational
andSecurityAffairs(SWP),Berlin
-ResearchandadvisefortheGermanparliamentand
theGermanfederalgovernmenton:internaland
externalrelationsofASEAN,China’sdomesticand
foreignpolicy,regionaltransformationprocessesin
Asia;inter-regionalrelationsbetweenGermany/EUand
Asia(esp.ASEAN,ASEM);
-Projectleader,annualBerlinConferenceonAsian
Security(BCAS)incooperationwiththeGerman
FederalMinistryofDefence;Responsibleforplanning,
budgeting,coordinationofstaff,implementationand
reporting
01/2008-03/2008Member,ElectionObservationDelegationstoTaiwan’s
parliamentaryandpresidentialelections,organizedby
LondonSchoolofEconomicsandPoliticalScience(LSE)
12/2004-03/2007SeniorResearchFellow,EuropeanInstituteforAsian
Studies(EIAS),Brussels
-Headofresearchunits“PoliticalandSecurity
DevelopmentsinAsia”and“EU-AsiaInter-Regionalism
andNewRegionalisminAsia”;Workingwithand
leadinginternationalandmulticulturalresearchteams;
-Responsibleforstrategicnetworking,developing
researchproposalsandattractingresearchfundsfrom
EUandnon-EUresources;
-Second-in-command,responsibleforthemanagement
ofEIASandrepresentationofEIASatofficialmeetings
incaseofabsenceofdirector
01/2006-01/2007ExpertPoliticalAnalystofthe‘EuropeChinaAcademic
Network’(ECAN),fundedbytheEC,DGRELEX,tofoster
closercooperationbetweenscatteredEuropeanresearch
institutionsandresearcherswithinthefieldof
ContemporaryChinaStudies
07/2006Conductingthe?Asia-EuropeFoundationLectureTour
2006”in:Indonesia,Malaysia,Philippines,Singapore,
Thailand
12/2005InternationalInstituteofAsianStudies(IIAS),Affiliated
Fellow,Leiden
-ResearchonASEMprocess
Since2005LecturesatinstitutesofhighereducationonAsia’s
transformationintheprocessofglobalization,e.g.
UniversityofBristol;HamburgUniversity;GermanArmed
ForcesCommandandStaffCollege,Hamburg;Renmin
University(China);KeioUniversity,TempleUniversity
JapanCampus,ChulalongkornUniversity(Thailand);
UniversityofthePhilippinesDiliman;AsianManagement
Institute(Philippines)
Since2005TrainerandlecturerinStrategicPlanningandForeign
PolicyforSeniorandJuniorDiplomatsfromAsiaand
Europe,e.g.atTheClingendaelInstitute(Netherlands)and
theGenevaCentreforSecurityPolicy(Switzerland)
Since2004Commentatorfornationalandinternationalmedia(e.g.The
Economist,InternationalHeraldTribune,ChinaDaily,
EuropeanVoice,NewYorkTimes,FinancialTimes
Deutschland,TVandradio)
Since2001IncooperationwithInternationalInstituteofAsianStudies
(Leiden)co-organizingofresearchpanelsonoccasionof
theInternationalConventionofAsiaScholars(ICAS)in
Berlin(2001),Shanghai(2005),KualaLumpur(2007),
Daejeon(2009);Co-editoroffirstbookinICASPublication
Series
Since2000Lectureshipsatinstitutesofhighereducation(National
UniversityofIreland,Cork,FudanUniversity,Shanghai,
FreeUniversityBerlin,BremenUniversityofApplied
Sciences)
Since1999RegularconsultancyworkonAsianandEU-Asianaffairs
(e.g.GermanAcademicExchangeService(DAAD),Asia-
EuropeFoundation(ASEF),Singapore;Friedrich-Ebert
Stiftung(FES),Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung(KAS);European
Commission;EuropeanParliament)
06/1999-10/1999Field-studyin:BandarSeriBegawan,Bangkok,Beijing,
Hanoi,Jakarta,KualaLumpur,London,Manila,Seoul,
Shanghai,SingaporeandTokyo
1998-2004ResearchAssociate,DivisionofChineseandEast-Asian
Politics,FreeUniversityBerlin
-Lectureships
-ResearchprojectonAsia-EUrelations
04/1996-06/1996GermanFederalMinistryofEconomics,Asia-Pacific
Division,internship
Since1995Publicationofarticles,bookchaptersandbooksaswellas
editingofbooksonAsianandEU-Asianaffairs


EDUCATION
04/1998-12/2002Doctoraldissertation(?summacumlaude”)inpolitical
scienceatFreeUniversityBerlin,?ThePoliticsof
InterregionalRelations.TheexampleoftheASEMprocess”;
supervisors:Hon.-Prof.Hans-Dietrich
Genscher,formerGermanForeignMinisterandProf.Dr.
EberhardSandschneider,DirectoroftheResearch
InstituteoftheGermanCouncilonForeignRelations
09/1993-11/1997Graduationinpoliticalscience,FreeUniversityBerlin
(Dipl.-Pol.)
09/1991-06/1993ReadingMandarin,XiamenUniversity,PRChina
03/1989-06/1991Studiesofsinology,economics,politicalscienceand
sociologyatFreeUniversityBerlinandUniversityof
Cologne


SCHOLARSHIPSANDAWARDS
12/2003Awardofthe‘Ernst-Reuter-Preis2003’foroutstanding
doctoraldissertationsattheFreeUniversityofBerlin
01/1999-01/2002DoctoraldissertationscholarshipfromFriedrich-Ebert-
Foundation


LANGUAGES

German,English,Mandarin,French,Latin

Shanghai,2ndNovember2012
Dr.SebastianBersick