Miguel Otero-Iglesias is Senior Analyst at the Elcano Royal Institute and Research Associate at the EU-Asia Institute at ESSCA School of Management (France). Previously he was Assistant Professor in International Political Economy (IPE) at ESSCA in Paris, Adjunct Lecturer at Queen Elisabeth House within the University of Oxford, postdoctoral Research Fellow at LSE and Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, where he obtained his PhD in IPE. He also holds a MA in IPE from the University of Manchester. He has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of International Relations (Pontificia Universidade Catolica - PUC of Rio de Janeiro), the Institute of World Economics and Politics (IWEP) within the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing (which he continuous to visit regularly) and the College of Business at Alfaisal University in Riyadh. He is also the co-chair of the political economy section of EUSA.