Elina Sinkkonen

Expertise

China’s domestic and foreign policy, security politics in East Asia, authoritarian governance, great power relations, national identity and nationalism

Work experience

Researcher, University of Helsinki, 2013
Visiting researcher, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences 2011–2012
Member of China’s War With Japan programme at the University of Oxford 2009–2013
Coordinator of Asia-Pacific Studies Programme, University of Helsinki 2007–2009
In addition teaching experience at the University of Helsinki from 2008 onwards

Degrees

DPhil, University of Oxford (UK), Department of Politics and International Relations, 2014
M.Soc.Sc, University of Helsinki, Department of Politics and Economics, 2008

Prizes

Kanava prize 2016 for non-fiction writing  

Language skills

Finnish, English, Chinese (working languages), French, Swedish, German, Spanish