Position 
Research Intern
Nationality 
China
At UNU-CRIS 
09/01/2025
Biographical Statement 

Wei Wu is a Research Intern at UNU-CRIS who is pursuing a doctoral degree at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China. Her research interests lie in digital diplomacy and China’s foreign policy. Besides this, she is also a visiting PhD Student at Sciences Po Paris. Her previous works has contributed to the study of digital diplomacy and its impact on achieving SDGs, using China as a case study.

During her internship at UNU-CRIS, Wei will primarily work on evolving her doctoral thesis into a working paper for publication and assist with other research tasks under the supervision of Jamal Shahin within the Digital Governance Cluster. She will explore the China and EU’s digital diplomacy practice of cultural dissemination using digital plats and will discuss how these practices influence the China-EU relationship.