Helena Legarda is a Berlin-based senior fellow in GMF’s Indo-Pacific program. Her research focuses on China’s foreign and security policy, Europe-China relations, security in the Indo-Pacific, and transatlantic China policy. Before joining GMF, she led the Foreign Relations program at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), where she focused on China’s global role and its approach to geopolitical competition. She also spent time at the EU delegation in Beijing and at China Policy, a research and advisory firm.

 

Legarda holds a master’s degree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a bachelor’s degree in China studies from the University of Oxford. She has published widely on Chinese foreign and security policy and Europe-China ties, and is a frequent commentator in the media on the implications of China’s expanding global role.