Patrizia Cogo Morales is Project Officer at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy of the Brussels School of Governance. She also works as a Project Manager and Research Assistant at the Elcano Royal Institute. Previously, she worked at the EsadeGeo-Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics within the team of Dr. Javier Solana. She has also worked at the in-house think tank of the Government of Catalonia, the European Institute of the Mediterranean, and the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Patrizia holds a double bachelors in Law and Global Governance from Esade, and a Master in International Relations from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, with exchange programs in Jerusalem and New Delhi. She was also Lead Co-Founder and President of the European Guanxi network. She has contributed to South China Morning Post, the Diplomat, and China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe, inter alia. She is focused on EU-China and EU-India relations, and the security dynamics in the Indo-Pacific.