Ivana Karásková is a China Research Fellow at Association for International Affairs (AMO) and founder and project coordinator of ChinfluenCE and CHOICE (China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe) platform. She pursues her PhD at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, where she focuses on conceptualization of influence. Ivana holds a double B.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication and International Relations and European Studies from the Masaryk University and an M.A. degree in International Relations from the Charles University, Czech Republic. She spent several years on research and study stays in China (Fudan University, East China Normal University) and Taiwan (Tamkang University, Chengchi University). In 2009-2010 she was a Fulbright scholar at the Weatherhead East Asia Institute at Columbia University in New York. Ivana contributed to and supervised a number of grants from Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic, co-authored a book on Sino-Russian relations, authored a number of book chapters and has published widely on China affairs in Czech and foreign media. She is an Alumna of IVLP on Investment Screening Mechanism and Czech member of the China expert pool of Hybrid CoE.