Highlighted Speakers
Ass. Prof. Dr. Paulo Duarte
Assistant Professor at Universidade Lusófona do Porto and Invited Professor at the University of Minho, Portugal. PhD and a Masters in Political and Social Sciences, by Catholic University of Louvain. Expert in China's Belt and Road Initiative, on China, World Politics, and specifically Central Asia, where he carried out on-the-ground doctoral research (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan) with a scholarship awarded from Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. His works have been published in Global Policy, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs, Global Security: Health, Science and Policy, Journal of Eurasian Studies, Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, among others.
Flávio Bastos da Silva
Flávio Bastos da Silva is a PhD student in Political Science and International Relations at the School of Economics, Management and Political Science, University of Minho (Braga, Portugal). He holds a Bachelor's degree in European Studies and a Master's degree in International Relations. He is currently a collaborating researcher at the Centre for Legal, Economic, International and Environmental Studies (CEJEIA) and at the Research Centre in Political Science (CICP). His research interests include Foreign Policy Analysis (with a focus on China, the European Union, and Portugal), the International Order, Global Governance, and Democracy Studies.
Past Speaker
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Brian Lee
Head of Communication Studies at the Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore
Associate Professor Brian Lee is the Head of Communication Studies at the Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore. He teaches and conducts applied research in e-learning, intelligent education, social media and strategic communications. He has recently published various timely op-eds, such as the impact of ChatGPT on education, how TikTok shapes users’ social behaviour, etc.
Previously, Brian has been awarded research grants for work on two major applied research projects: One on social media and another on e-learning.
As an applied researcher in communication studies and e-learning, Brian has served as a key speaker at various international conferences, such as the International Conference on New Trends in Social Sciences (Belgium, 2023), the International Conference on Humanities, Wisdom Education and Service Management (China, 2023) and the International Congress on Behavioural & Social Science (Dubai, 2024), among others.
Prof Lee holds a doctoral degree in Communication and Information from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and a Master’s degree in Communication Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Dr. Yicen Jiang
Ms. Dulshani Martinus
Mr. Yossapol Chutipanyabut
Dr. Senwei Dai
Prof. Hamutal Bar-Yosef
Prof. Marija Lončar
Prof. Dr. Sc. Marko Alerić
Prof. Dr. Tamara Gazdic-Aleric
Ms. Yujia Zhu
Mr. Ionuț Alexandru Pleșcau
Dr. Yicen Jiang
Ms. Dulshani Martinus
Mr. Yossapol Chutipanyabut
Dr. Senwei Dai
Prof. Hamutal Bar-Yosef
Prof. Marija Lončar
Prof. Dr. Sc. Marko Alerić
Prof. Dr. Tamara Gazdic-Aleric
Ms. Yujia Zhu