Our Team
Julian Germann
Julian Germann is Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex. His research uses international trade, investment, and corporate profit data to analyse the sectoral exposure and lobby politics of German industry vis-à-vis China. This work, which appeared in Review of International Political Economy, Global Political Economy, and Development and Change, aims to intervene in key policy debates over corporate Germany’s dependence on China and the German government’s new China strategy.
Joseph Baines
Joseph Baines is Senior Lecturer in the Department of European & International Studies at King’s College London. He has pioneered an approach and led work that translates categories from global value chain research into quantifiable metrics and marshals Bloomberg Professional supply-chain and company-map datasets to analyse global production networks at micro and macro-levels. He has published in numerous academic journals including Competition & Change, Review of International Political Economy, and New Political Economy, as well as leading news outlets such as Le Monde, The Guardian, Tribune and The Conversation.
Steven Rolf
Steve Rolf is ESRC Research Fellow at the Digital Futures at Work (Digit) Research Centre, University of Sussex Business. He works on Chinese and international political economy, and the emergence, dynamics and implications of China-US competition in the field of digital and physical technologies. His current research focuses on the economic and power dynamics of digitalisation, including the intersection of state capitalism and digital platforms.