Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy

Visiting Fellow

Dr. Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy is an Affiliated Scholar at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Adjunct Assistant Professor at National Dong Hwa University in Hualien, Taiwan, and Visiting Fellow on EU-Southeast Asia relations at the Martens Centre. Based in Taiwan since 2020, she has worked as a geopolitical analyst and academic, expanding her regional network and deepening her expertise in the Indo-Pacific. Her work on Taiwan’s internationalisation, viewed through a European lens, places particular emphasis on Southeast Asia and India—key regional partners for Europe. From 2008 to 2020, Zsuzsa served as a political advisor in the European Parliament, focusing on European foreign and security policy and human rights in the world. She is the author of “Europe, China, and the Limits of Normative Power” (Edward Elgar Publishing 2019) and “Partners in Peace. Why Europe and Taiwan Matter to Each Other” (Palgrave Macmillan 2024). In addition to her academic roles, she is Associated Research Fellow at the Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP Stockholm), Head of the Associates Network at 9DASHLINE (London), Fellow at Agora Strategy (Munich), and a regular commentator in international media.