•    Russian and Chinese foreign policy, Sino-Russian relations

Bobo Lo is an independent scholar and consultant. His previous positions include Director of the Russia and China Programmes at the Centre for European Reform (CER); Head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House; and Deputy Head of Mission at the Australian Embassy in Moscow. Dr Lo writes extensively on Russian and Chinese foreign policy, with a particular focus on Sino-Russian relations. His books include Axis of Convenience: Moscow, Beijing and the New Geopolitics (Brookings and Chatham House, 2008), Vladimir Putin and the Evolution of Russian Foreign Policy (Blackwell and Chatham House, 2003), and Russian Foreign Policy in the Post Soviet Era: Reality, Illusion and Mythmaking (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002). Among his recent writings are ‘How the Chinese See Russia’ (Institut Français des Relations Internationales – IFRI, December 2010), ‘China’s “Permanent Reset” (Russia in Global Affairs, September/October 2010); ‘China and the global financial crisis’ (CER, April 2010), ‘Russia, China and the United States – from strategic triangularism to the post-modern triangle’ (IFRI, February 2010), ‘Medvedev and the new European Security Architecture’ (CER, July 2009); ‘Russia’s crisis – what it means for regime stability and Moscow’s relations with the world’ (CER, February 2009); and ‘Ten things everyone should know about the Sino-Russian relationship’ (CER, December 2008). Bobo Lo is an Alumnus of the World Economic Forum’s Network of Global Councils. He has an MA from Oxford and a PhD from the University of Melbourne.