Speakers:
Eyck Freymann, Hoover Fellow, Stanford University
Hugo Bromley, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

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Eyck Freymann is a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University, where he studies the geopolitics of climate change and strategic deterrence in the Taiwan Strait. Trained as an economic historian and China specialist, he is also the Indo-Pacific Director at Greenmantle, a New York-based advisory firm, and a Non-Resident Research Fellow with the China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College.

Freymann’s first book, One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World, is assigned on undergraduate and graduate syllabi at Harvard, Cambridge, Columbia, Peking University, and elsewhere. His writings on other current affairs topics have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, The Economist, War on the Rocks, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, and other venues.

Before Hoover, Freymann held concurrent postdoctoral fellowships at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center and the Columbia-Harvard China & the World Program. He earned his doctorate in China Studies from Balliol College, University of Oxford; two masters degrees in China Studies from Harvard University and the University of Cambridge, where he was a Henry Scholar; and a bachelors degree cum laude with highest honors in East Asian History from Harvard College.

Hugo Bromley is a historian of English manufacturing and British political economy and geopolitics, focusing on the early eighteenth century. His recently submitted PhD, completed at Cambridge, looked at how textile manufacturers and their employees shaped the formation of Britain after 1688, and the role of the British state in the global economy immediately before the Industrial Revolution. At the Centre for Geopolitics, he will coordinate the forthcoming project on the applied history of the UK Union, as well as continuing his own research. He has also been appointed as an affiliated postdoctoral research associate at Robinson College.

Hugo previously worked for the Centre as a Research Assistant on the Baltic Geopolitics Programme, which he will continue to support. He also hosted a short podcast series on the Geopolitics of Finance, which is available online at On Geopolitics. He completed his undergraduate studies at the LSE and his MPhil at here at Cambridge. Away from academia, he has worked as a researcher at the International Financial Law Review and as a reporter at IFLR Practice Insight.