Research interests
Global value chains, multinational enterprises, geopolitical tension, transnational direct investment
Xiaomian Dai
Xiaomian Dai holds a master’s degree in Economic Geography from Peking University (2024), as well as a bachelor’s degree in urban management from Central University of Finance and Economics (2021).
He worked on economic and environmental inequality concerning the dual circulation model in China and Euro-Sino decoupling in his master’s thesis and co-authored several publications on global trade and investment networks, their resilience under COVID-19, and their impacts on environmental inequality.
For his DPhil research, he proposes to investigate the strategies that multinational firms coped with the recent global geopolitical tension and economic (& technology) decoupling, and how such reconfigurations have possibly changed global knowledge networks. His academic interests also lie in the broader context of investment and structural change in developing economics, especially deploying methods from network science and data science, to seek policy implications for inclusive and sustainable development.