Serafijn Gentils

I am a doctoral candidate in Area Studies (China) at St Cross College, Oxford. My project examines EU foreign policy making towards Hong Kong in the first 25 years since the Handover. I aim to understand the UK’s position in this relationship, and the extent to which British foreign policy towards Hong Kong has been Europeanised. More broadly, I am interested in EU-UK relations, the effects of Brexit, EU foreign policy (especially regarding Asia), and Hong Kong politics.
 

Before starting my doctoral studies, I worked as a Brexit Policy Analyst at the Embassy of Belgium (Delegation of Flanders) in London for three years. Before that, I worked on global licensing issues in the visual effects software industry.

My interest in Hong Kong builds on living there as an AFS exchange student and completing internships at the EU Office to Hong Kong (EEAS) and the Belgian Consulate General in Hong Kong. I hold an MSc degree in EU Studies and an LLM in International and European Law, both from Ghent University, Belgium.
 

St Cross College
 

Supervisor: Professor Paul Irwin-Crookes