Simone van Nieuwenhuizen

Simone van Nieuwenhuizen is Project and Research Officer at the Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney.

Simone holds a Master of International Relations (Diplomacy) from Peking University and a Bachelor of Arts (Languages) from the University of Sydney. Her most recent position was Project Officer at the University of Sydney, where she helped establish its Centre in China. Simone has also held research roles at the University of Sydney China Studies Centre, as well as the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy and the Lowy Institute for International Policy. She is co-author of 'China and the New Maoists' (Zed Books, 2016).

Her work has appeared in The Diplomat, Lowy Interpreter, China Policy Institute: Analysis, ABC Radio and SBS Television.

Her research interests include Chinese foreign policy and diplomacy, Chinese politics and China-Middle East relations. Simone speaks Mandarin Chinese and Arabic, and is learning Russian.