Alice Politi

Alice Politi is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge. Previously, she completed her PhD in International Relations at King’s College London. During her PhD, she was also the 2024 Eisenhower Defense Fellow at the NATO Defense College and a Policy Advisor at the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). Her doctoral research focused on EU-China relations during the presidency of Xi Jinping, with a focus on China’s Belt and Road Initiative. More broadly, her research concentrated on China’s geopolitical behaviour and foreign policy under Xi Jinping.

Politi has previously collaborated as a Policy Consultant with the UK FCDO and participated in projects with the European Commission and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.