Aya Adachi

Dissertation project

“Domestic Actors and Institutional Settings of Regional Trade Policy-Making: A Comparative Case Study of the People’s Republic of China and Japan”

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Jörn-Carsten Gottwald, Prof. Dr. Werner Pascha

Research focus

  • International Political Economy
  • Comparative Political Economy
  • Political Economy of East Asia, China and Japan

Personal profile

2022–2023Analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS)
2017–2022Doctoral scholarship at the Alliance for Research on East Asia (AREA) Ruhr granted by Mercator Research Center Ruhr (MERCUR)
2017–2018External Consultant for Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
2016M.A. in International Relations, University of Groningen, Netherlands
2015B.A. in Economics and Politics of East Asia, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.