+45 7551 8884 | [email protected] | Skype: Rasmus_Gjedssoe_Bertelsen RASMUS GJEDSSØ BERTELSEN, PhD (Cantab)

Born 25 March 1975. Male. Danish national Professional Experience

2013-2017 AALBORG , Department of Culture and Global Studies Assistant Professor: Europe-USA-Asia-Middle East knowledge and talent circulation. Asia-.

Affiliations: Affiliate (Public Diplomacy Collaborative, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, 2008-); Associate Research Fellow (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2009-); Member (Thematic Network on Geopolitics and Security, University of the Arctic, 2009-); Senior Analyst (Wikistrat, 2013-)

2011-2013 AALBORG UNIVERSITY, Department of Learning and Philosophy Postdoc: Sino-Danish knowledge collaboration and brain circulation between academia and business. Arctic sustainable development, natural resources and human capital. Graduate level teaching and supervision on China, science, technology, innovation and the Arctic.

2009-2011 UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY, Institute of Advanced Studies, & TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Department of History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science and Technology Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellow: The role of in the Global South as transnational actors connecting with the Global North. Arctic climate change, self-government and security. UN observer at COP15.

2006-2009 HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Research Fellow: The soft power of US and French universities in the Middle East. Visits to Beirut, Cairo, Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi and Kuwait. Arctic climate change, self-government and security. Danish Research Council, Kuwait Program at Harvard and Dubai Initiative.

2002-2006 UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, Centre of International Studies Section Editor, Managing Editor, Editor-in-Chief, Cambridge Review of International Affairs: Negotiated new contract with publishers tripling income, introduced online IT platform, strengthened peer review (150%+), expanded submissions (200%+) and activated dormant International Editorial Board at peer-reviewed journal from Routledge. Education 2002-2008 UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, Centre of International Studies and Churchill College PhD in International Relations: ‘The Statesman and the International System: The Development of Aristide Briand’s, Austen Chamberlain’s, Winston Churchill’s and Raymond Poincaré’s Perceptions of the International System from the 1880s to the 1930s.’ Carlsberg Foundation Studentship.

2003-2004 SCIENCES PO PARIS, Doctoral School in International Relations Visiting PhD Candidate: Archival research. Doctoral seminars. All work in French.

2001-2002 , Amsterdam School for Social Science Research Huygens Stipendiary: Pre-dissertation research in International Relations. 1998-2000 UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA with , Departments of Political Science Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies (MA in Political Science): MA thesis on , , Switzerland and the EU. All classes in French.

1994-2000 , Department of Political Science Cand.scient.pol. (BA & MA in Political Science): MA thesis on Denmark, Norway, Switzerland and the EU. BA thesis on political aides and leadership in (published).

1996-1998 UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND, Faculties of Social Sciences, Business Administration and Economics, and Law Nordplus exchange student in political science, economics and law: All classes in Icelandic.

Aalborg University, Department of Culture and Global Studies, Kroghstraede 3, DK-9220 Aalborg East

Publications (upcoming and recent) Forth- ‘From Energy to Knowledge? Building Domestic Knowledge-Based Sectors around Hydro co- and ’, with Klaus Georg Hansen, in Diplomacy on Ice, Yale University Press ming Forth- ‘Energy as a developmental strategy for North Atlantic microstates in search of independence: creating co- knowledge-based energy sectors in Iceland, Faroe Islands and Greenland’, with Jens Christian Justinussen og ming Coco Smits, in The Handbook of the Politics of the Arctic, Edward Elgar Publishing Forth- ‘American Missionary Universities in China and the Middle East and American Philanthropy: Interacting Soft co- Power of Transnational Actors’, special issue of Global Society and in edited volume from Routledge ming Forth- ‘Sino-Danish Brain Circulation: Scholarship, Capacity and Policy’, with Xiangyun Du & Morten Karnøe co- Søndergaard, in International Journal of Business and Globalisation ming Forth- ‘The Political Context for Transnational Actor Soft Power: Classical American Overseas Missionary coming Universities and the State’, in China and the World: Theatres of Soft Power, Tsinghua University Press Forth- ‘Public Policy, University Governance and Transnational Linkages: American-Associated Universities in the coming Middle East’, in Kathryn Bindon & Jason E. Lane (eds.) Educational Reform, Public Policy and the Students of the Arab Gulf Region. Bahrain: University of Bahrain Press 2013 ‘The Drivers of Chinese Arctic Interests: Political Stability and Energy and Transportation Security’, with LI Xing, in Arctic Yearbook 2013, 1-16 2013 ‘Strategic Knowledge Collaboration between Danish Business and Chinese Academia’, with Xiangyun Du & Morten Karnøe Søndergaard, in Journal of China and International Relations, 1:1, 66-87 2013 ‘Historical, Current and Future Microstate Security Policy Making in the High North Atlantic: the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Iceland’ in The Fast-Changing Arctic: Defense and Security in a Warming World, University of Calgary Press 2012 ‘Private Foreign-Affiliated Universities, the State and Soft Power: the American University of Beirut and the American University in Cairo’, Foreign Policy Analysis, 8:3, 293-311

Leadership: Board Member: Arctic Portal (2008-); Cambridge Review of International Affairs (2006-); British International Studies Association (2005-2006); Churchill College Phoenix Society (2004-2006); Churchill Archives Centre (2002-2005); Research Committee 29: Political Psychology, International Political Science Association (2003- 2006); Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (1995-1996).

Languages and methodology: Native Danish. Fluent English, French and Icelandic. Read and understand Faroese, German, Norwegian and Swedish. Beginner Japanese. Elite interviewing, archival, field and qualitative research.

Media appearances: Op-eds in Danish national Nyhedsavisen. Interviewed for Danish regional JydskeVestkysten, Icelandic national Morgunblaðið, Danish research policy magazine Forskerforum, Danish TV2 News, Times , Faroese Radio, Danish Broadcasting Corporation, The Economist and Austria Presse Agentur.

Grants, Awards, Invitations: Basin Harbor Teachers’ Workshop, Trans-Arctic Agenda High Level Seminar, International Polar Year From Knowledge to Action, Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Security, Arctic Frontiers (2), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy, Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, Arctic Ocean Sciences Board, Northern Research Forum, Dubai Initiative, Kuwait Program at Harvard, Danish Social Science Research Council, Churchill College, Fondation danoise, Anglo-Danish Society, Carlsberg Foundation, Huygens, Erasmus, Nordplus, Knud Højgaard Foundation, Letterstedske Society, etc.

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