Dr. Tamás Matura, Ph.D., is the Founder of the Central and Eastern European Center for Asian Studies. He has been working on Asia-related issues for over fifteen years. He began his career as a research fellow at the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of International Relations at Corvinus University of Budapest, a lecturer at ESSCA School of Management (Angers–Paris–Budapest–Shanghai), and a founding member of the European Think Tank Network on China.