Duncan Freeman is Lecturer at the Brussels Management School (ICHEC). Previously, he was Research Fellow at the EU-China Research Centre with the College of Europe and Research Fellow at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) where he taught and researched China’s economic and policy development in addition to EU-China relations. He has studied and worked in Beijing and Hong Kong for a total of 17 years. He co-edited, with Jing Men and Simon Schunz, The Evolving Relationship between China, the EU and the USA: A New Global Order? (Routledge, 2019), which received a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2021 by the American Library Association. His latest co-edited volume, with A. Révész, M. Feldmann and S. Langendonk, Narrating China and Europe in Uncertain Times (Bristol University Press, 2025), is forthcoming. He received a BA in Politics and Modern History from the University of Manchester, a MSc in Chinese Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, a Postgraduate Diploma in Economic Principles from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and a PhD from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).