Ramon Pacheco Pardo is KF-VUB Korea Chair in the Institute for European Studies of Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Reader in International Relations at King’s College London. He is also a Committee Member of CSCAP EU and a Research Associate at the Lau China Institute and LSE IDEAS. His areas of expertise include East Asia's international relations and political economy and EU-East Asia relations. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE).