Dr May-Britt U. Stumbaum

Dr May-Britt U. Stumbaum serves as Senior Research Fellow and Head of EU - China Project within the China and Global Security Programme in Stockholm. Prior to joining SIPRI, May-Britt Stumbaum worked as a Fritz Thyssen Fellow at the Weatherhead Center, Harvard Unversity, comparing EU and US approaches towards China’s rise, particular in the area of dual-use technology transfers to the PRC. Before this, May-Britt Stumbaum worked for seven years at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin, where she headed the International Forum on Strategic Thinking (former Forum on European Foreign and Security Policy), and at several renowned think tanks in Brussels, Paris, Stockholm and Beijing. Preceding institutions included Berlin Partner, the Institute for Advanced Studies (Wissenschaftskolleg) and the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB). From December 2004 until October 2008, she also served as the German Correspondent for Jane's Sentinel Country Risk Assessment. May-Britt Stumbaum graduated from the London School of Economics and obtained her PhD from the Free University of Berlin. She has co-founded Women in International Security Deutschland (WIIS.de) and served as its president until 2008.

Dr May-Britt U. Stumbaum has published on EU – China and EU – Asia relations and security policy. Recent publications include a monograph on “The EU and China. Decision-making in EU Foreign and Security Policy towards the PR China” (Nomos 2009) and a policy paper on “Risky Business? The EU, China and the transfer of dual-use technologies” (Occasional Paper No. 80, EU Institute for Security Studies).