Siv Helland Oftedal

Academic interests

Chinese politics

The Chinese Communist Party

Chinese political language and policy concepts

Central-local relations in the Chinese political system

Ongoing Projects

Siv joined the BROKEX team in January 2021. She is working on the project “Moving up the value chain: Intermediation in industrial upgrading in the Pearl River Delta”, funded by the Research Council of Norway. Her research focuses on changes in the central-local relations in the Chinese political system since 2012 and their implications for the development of the Pearl River Delta in South China. She holds a PhD in Chinese Politics from King’s College London and a MSc in Modern Chinese Studies from the University of Oxford. She has spent several years in China both as a student and researcher, as well as a project coordinator for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in South China.

Background

PhD Chinese Politics, King's College London

MSc Modern Chinese Studies, University of Oxford

BA Chinese, University of Oslo

MPhil Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Tromsø

BA History, University of Bergen