Jiuzhou Duan is Assistant Professor at Tsinghua University. He holds a PhD in Political Science and he is Council Member of the Chinese Society of African Historical Studies (2022-2027) and the Chinese Association for Middle East Studies (2023-2028). He was Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science at Uskudar University in Turkey (2021-2022). His main fields of interest are Political economy of development, civil-military relation, state-business relation, Egypt, Turkey and Middle East studies.