Dr Yu Jie is Head of China Foresight at LSE IDEAS and teaches at LSE. Her research focuses on the decision-making process of Chinese foreign policy as well as China’s economic diplomacy. She appears regularly at major media outlets such as the BBC, the Financial Times, the Independent and the Washington Post, briefs both public institutions such as the European External Action Services(EEAs), Silk Road Fund in Beijing and the UK Cabinet Office on China’s foreign affairs as well as corporates such as Bloomberg and UBS. She served as an expert witness at House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee. Prior to LSE, she was a management consultant, specialised at Chinese investments in Europe and Chinese market entry strategies for European conglomerates at the London Office of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants，managing projects with EADS, Shanghai Automotive (SAIC),China General Nuclear Group（CGN).