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Ph.D. candidate at the Institute for Research on Portuguese-speaking Countries, City University
of Macau (China). He has received a master’s degree in Chinese-Portuguese Interpreting from
the Macau Polytechnic University and a Bachelor of Portuguese language and literature from
Beijing Foreign Studies University. He is currently working as a Chinese-Portuguese translator
and interpreter in the Supporting Office of the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation
between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries (Forum Macao). Previously, between 2012
and 2018, he worked as a Foreign Affairs manager and Portuguese language translator in the
Department of International Cooperation of the China Petrochemical Corporation (SINOPEC)
headquarters (Beijing). His current main area of interest and research is the Portuguese-speaking
countries

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Ph.D. in political science and international relations from the Catholic University of Portugal in
2010. From 2016 to 2017, he took part in a post-doctoral research programme on state
monopolies in China — One belt, one road studies. In 2014, 2017 and 2020, he was awarded the
Institute of European Studies in Macau (IEEM) Academic Research Grant, which is a major
component of the Asia-Europe Comparative Studies Research Project. From 2014 to 2018, he
was the Programme Coordinator at the Institute of Social and Legal Studies, Faculty of
Humanities at the University of Saint Joseph in Macau, China. From 2018 to 2023 he was the
Associate-Dean of the Institute for Research on Portuguese-Speaking Countries at the City
University of Macau. He is currently Associate Professor with Habilitation in International
Relations at Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Macau (China). His most recent books
are: Steps of Greatness: The Geopolitics of OBOR (2018), University of Macau; The Challenges,
Development and Promise of Timor-Leste (2019), City University of Macau; The Belt and Road
Initiative: An Old Archetype of a New Development Model (2020), Palgrave Macmillan;
Geopolitics of Iran (2021), Palgrave Macmillan; The Handbook of Special Economic Zones (2021),
IGI Global; Disentangled Visions on Higher Education: Preparing the Generation Next (2023),
Peter Lang Publishers; and The Palgrave Handbook of Globalization with Chinese Characteristics
(2023), Palgrave Macmillan. Leandro is a member of OBSERVARE (Observatory of Foreign
Relations), which was established in 1996 as a center for studies in International Relations at the
Autonomous University of Lisbon, Portugal