Jing Men is Distinguished Professor and Director of the Centre for European Studies at East China Normal University. She holds a Jean Monnet Chair. She spent over 20 years in Belgium working at the College of Europe as the Baillet Latour Chair of European Union-China Relations and the Director of the EU-China Research Centre. During her tenure, she was the first and only professor of Chinese background at the College. Her work included offering one of the earliest courses on EU-China relations. In 2009, she founded the EU-China Observer, an electronic journal dedicated to research articles and policy analysis on EU-China relations. She edited 56 issues of this influential publication. Additionally, she has authored and edited six books in English, three special issues in academic journals, and three books in Chinese. Prof. Dr. Jing Men obtained her Ph.D. in Political Science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.