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Delighted to be joining the great team at OCPL as a non-resident expert!
Kicking off 2025 with a bang! We are extremely pleased to announce three new hires at Oxford China Policy Lab, and a new non-resident expert. Karuna Nandkumar is our new Head of Policy Programmes. Karuna most recently worked on Indo-Pacific policy at the US Department of Defense in D.C, and her work focuses on Chinese foreign policy and diplomacy. She also speaks Mandarin and several other languages fluently. Sam Hogg is coming on as our Head of Policy Engagement. Sam previously ran Beijing to Britain, which produced analyses on the UK-China bilateral read a million times across 140 countries. Prior to that, he worked in Parliament. His work focuses on strategy. Nadine Staes-Polet is our Programme Associate. Her research focuses on how Southeast Asian states navigate the US-China geopolitical rivalry, and she speaks Mandarin fluently. And we're delighted to announce a new Non-Resident Expert: Ruby Osman. Ruby is a Policy Advisor and China expert at The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, where her research focuses on Chinese foreign policy and elite politics, and helping political leaders create coherent China strategies.
