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Jiayi Zhou is a Researcher with China and Global Security Programme. Before joining SIPRI, she worked as a policy analyst on US-China nuclear relations for the US Air Force, and was a Research Assistant at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. She is also a nonresident WSD-Handa Fellow for Pacific Forum CSIS. Her Masters degrees are in International Development and International Relations, with an area studies background in the former Soviet Union. Her interests are in non-traditional security, geo-economics and violent extremism.
International and regional security, strategic nuclear relations, development and security nexus, agrarian transformation and food security, minority issues
China, Russia, Central Asia, the Caucasus and the Transatlantic
M.A. International Development, Erasmus University Rotterdam; M.A. International Relations, Syracuse University; B.A. History, UC Berkeley