Naná de Graaff is a Professor of Global Politics and Networks at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, VU Amsterdam. She is leading ReGlobe and principal investigator of the Vidi-financed research project on the Geopolitics of Europe-China Technological Decoupling. Her research interests are in the field of International Relations and International Political Economy, the evolving relationship between China and the West, in particular from the perspective of economic and political elites and networks.

She also studies US foreign policy and elite networks, and the (geo)politics of the energy industry. De Graaff is chair of the China in Europe Research Network (CHERN).originally funded as a COST Action. She is a member of the Executive Council of SASE and co-organiser of the SASE network Q: ‘Asian Capitalisms’. She is co-editor of the Routledge RIPE Series in Global Political Economy, as well as an international board member of International Affairs and The International Spectator.

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