Markus Taube

Professor / Chair for the Economy of East Asia / China at the Mercator School of Management, University of Duisburg-Essen
Prof. Dr. Markus Taube holds the Chair for East Asian Economic Studies / China as a faculty member of the Mercator School of Management. He is the Director of the IN- EAST School of Advanced Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen as well as a Co-Director of the Confucius Institute Metropolis Ruhr, a Sino-German organisation for cultural exchange and civil society dialog. Markus Taube has been appointed to Visiting Professor positions at various universities such as Nankai University, Tianjin (2014-2017 "1000 Plan", 2019-2022), Ca`Foscari University, Venice (2015-2016), Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan (2017-2020), Jilin University, Changchun (2017-2022), as well as Wuhan University, (2018-permanent). He is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), Berlin (since 2013), and the Chinese Economic Association / Europe (CEA) (since 2016), the Research Council of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (German Institute for International and Security Affairs, SWP), Berlin (since 2017). He has been part of the Experts-Group for the "Sino-German Innovation Platform" at the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (2017-2019).