Eka Khorbaladze

Eka Khorbaladze is a research associate at the Sino Group Belt and Road Research Office in Hong Kong. She was previously a pre-doctoral fellow at the Centre on Contemporary China and the World at the University of Hong Kong. She is a PhD candidate at the Lomonosov Moscow State University specialising in international cooperation, transregional integration initiatives and US-China-Russia relations. Her dissertation focuses on great power competition in the Indo-Pacific region. From 2021 to 2023, Khorbaladze conducted research at Yale University. She is a member of four US-based Political Science associations, serves on the editorial boards of two journals and engages in collaborative work with think tanks based in China and Russia.