niv.horesh@gmail.com

Associate Professor at Western Sydney University (Australia). He is a China specialist with over
20 years of experience ranging across the private sector, public service and academe. Between
2000-2003, he lived and worked in Beijing, and has been visiting different parts of the Chinesespeaking world regularly since. Over the course of his academic career, Niv has held teaching
and research positions at Hebrew University, China Agricultural University, the University of New
South Wales, and the University of Nottingham. He gave keynote presentations of his research
around the world including at Oxford University, NYU Stern School of Business and UCLA. Niv's
research incorporates four main strands in the following order: Chinese History, World Monetary
History, PRC Political Economy, and PRC Foreign Policy with emphasis on the Middle East. His
latest book is China’s Grand Strategy under Xi Jinping: How History Complicates Beijing’s Global
Outreach (Routledge, 2022).