Rebekka Åsnes Sagild is a senior researcher at the Centre for International Security. Sagild’s research focuses on Chinese domestic and foreign policy, particularly Sino-Russian relations and elite politics.
Sagild holds a PhD in Modern China Studies (Chinese politics) from the University of Oslo (2022). She has previously been a guest researcher at CRESPPA in Paris, NIAS in Copenhagen, and Max Planck in Berlin.
Her research has appeared in journals such as Journal of Contemporary China and China Perspectives. Recent publications include 'Polar Power Play? Sino-Russian Collaboration in the European Arctic' for CSIS, and 'Chinese Re-Examinations of Russia? The 'Strategic Partnership in the Wake of Russia’s War Against Ukraine', co-written with Christopher Weidacher Hsiung.