Yanmei Xie is Senior Associate Fellow at MERICS. Her expertise covers China’s political economy, industrial policy and foreign policy, its strategic, technological and industrial competition with the US, trade frictions with Europe, and the impact of rising geopolitical risks on markets, investments, corporate decisions and supply chains. She most recently worked as a China policy and geopolitics analyst at Gavekal Research, where her analysis and forecast informed decisions by institutional investors, multinational corporations and policymakers. 

Yanmei has also worked as an a senior analyst and acting director of China Project at the International Crisis Group and a journalist in Washington, covering US national politics and policy. Yanmei’s essays have been published in Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Nikkei Asia Review, and Foreign Policy. She was educated at the Chinese Foreign Affairs University, and has a master’s degree in mass communications from Miami University and a master’s in finance from George Washington University.