Professor Liselotte Odgaard will deliver the lecture on “BRICS: An Alternative Vision of World Order” on Satursday October 21st from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Ms. Liselotte Odgaard is a professor at the Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies in Oslo. Her work focuses on US–China–Europe relations, including, NATO–China relations; Chinese foreign, security and defense policy and Indo-Pacific security. She also worked on geopolitics of the Arctic region and the BRICS. She is non-resident senior fellow at Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. Dr Odgaard has been a visiting scholar at institutions such as Harvard University, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Norwegian Nobel Institute. She is the author of numerous monographs, books, peer-reviewed articles, and research papers on Chinese and Asia-Pacific security, and she is a frequent commentator on these issues in the media. She regularly participates in policy dialogues such as the Arctic Circle Assembly in Iceland and the Xiangshan Forum in Beijing. She received her bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD in political science from Aarhus University in Denmark, as well as a master’s degree in international studies from the University of Warwick in the UK.

Publications include “The BRICs and coexistence : an alternative vision of world order”, Routlage (2015); “European Engagement in the Indo-Pacific: The Interplay between Institutional and State-Level Naval Diplomacy,” Asia Policy (14:4, October 2019, pp. 129–159) and “Europe’s Place in Sino-U.S. Competition,” in Ashley J. Tellis, Alison Szalwinski, and Michael Willis (eds.), Strategic Asia 2020: Sino–U.S. Competition for Global Influence, (Seattle: National Bureau of Asian Research, 2020, pp. 277–304). Recent publications include “Home Versus Abroad: China’s Differing Sovereignty Concepts in the South China Sea and the Arctic” in Cambridge Review of International Affairs (2022); “Will Europe’s Emerging Indo-Pacific Presence Last?” in East Asia Forum, (2022); “NATO’s China Role: Defending Cyber and Outer Space,” in The Washington Quarterly (2022); and with M. Taylor Fravel and Kathryn Lavelle, “China Engages the Arctic: A Great Power in a Regime Complex,” in Asian Security (2022). She regularly participates in policy dialogues, such as the Arctic Circle Assembly in Iceland and the Xiangshan Forum in Beijing. She received her bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD in political science from Aarhus University in Denmark, as well as a master’s degree in international studies from the University of Warwick in the UK.