Konstantinos Tsimonis is Assistant Professor in Chinese Politics and Academic Lead of the Institute of International Relations (IDIS) China Program at the Department of European and International Studies, Panteion University. He is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College London and an affiliate of the Lau China Institute at King’s College London where he previously served as a tenured faculty member. Konstantinos first went to Beijing in 2003 and spent a total of five years studying mandarin and working. During his doctoral studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), he conducted fieldwork in China as a visiting doctoral student at Peking University. Following the completion of his PhD, he held his first academic post at SOAS, and later joined King’s where he worked for eleven years.
His publications include the monograph The Chinese Communist Youth League: Juniority and Responsiveness in a Party Youth Organization (Amsterdam University Press, 2021); the co-authored monograph Belt and Road: The First Decade(Agenda Publishing, 2022); and the co-edited volume Corruption and Anti-Corruption Upside Down: New Perspectives from the Global South (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).His research has appeared in Modern China, Europe-Asia Studies, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, The Chinese Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Youth Studies, among other journals. His work has been supported by the Independent Social Research Foundation, the British Academy, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, among other institutions. He is a member of the editorial board of the People’s Map of Global China and of the Advisory Editorial Board of the Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies, co-editor the IDIS East Asia Series and a founding member of the Hellenic Association of Chinese Studies.
