Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova is the Head of the Political Science PhD Programme at Riga Stradins University, she is the Director at RSU China Studies Centre.
Dr Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova is a political scientist, China scholar, Head of Political Science PhD programme and China Studies Centre at Riga Stradins University, Head of Asia programme at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs, a member of CHERN and European Think-tank Network on China (ETNC). After having defended her doctoral dissertation on Chinese political discourse in the Hu Jintao period, she has held a Senior visiting research scholar position at Fudan University School of Philosophy, Shanghai, a Fulbright visiting scholar position at the Stanford University Center for East Asia Studies, and a MERICS European China Policy fellowship.
Her research interests are Chinese political discourse EU-China relations Russia-China relations China in the Baltics.