Mareike Ohlberg is a Senior Fellow in the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund, based at GMF’s Berlin Office. Before joining GMF, she worked as an Analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies, where she focused on China’s media and digital policies as well as the Chinese Communist Party’s influence campaigns in Europe. Prior to that, she was an An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and a Postdoctoral Fellow at Shih-Hsin University in Taipei. Ohlberg has spent several years living and working in Greater China. She is co-author of the book Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World (Simon & Schuster, 2020). She has a Doctoral degree in Chinese Studies from the University of Heidelberg and a Master’s degree in East Asian Regional Studies from Columbia University.
Last Updated: October 27, 2020
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