Prof. Anna Rudakowska holds a PhD in Political Science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (June 2011). She started her  research at the Graduate Institute for European Studies at Tamkang University in Taiwan. Since then, she was hosted as a researcher at Qinghua University in Xinzhu, Taiwan, at the Center for Contemporary China (Oct. 2006 – Feb. 2007); as a Doctoral Dissertation Fellow at Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD) in Taipei (April – June 2008 and Oct. – Dec. 2008); and received a research grant for foreign scholars specializing in Chinese Studies at the Center for Chinese Studies (CCS) at the National Central Library in Taipei, Taiwan (Feb. – Aug. 2009). She also gained teaching experience at the National Chengchi University in Taipei, Taiwan (Aug. 2006 – Sept. 2008). Her curent research is focused on the cities as transnational actors and the problems of city diiplomacy. 

 Prof. Anna Rudakowska started her work at the IES as a PhD researcher in the framework of the project ‘The European Union Policy on Greater China’, the title of her reserach porject and  the thesis resulting from it: Role of Values in European Union Policies towards China and Taiwan. Contrary to the traditional treatment of values as a causal factor in the analysis of the EU policies towards China and Taiwan, this dissertation focuses on their limiting and enabling roles in communication processes.