Dr. Ivana Karásková is a China Team Lead at the Association for International Affairs (AMO) and a Senior Researcher with the Supply Chain Resilience Center, Charles University. She founded and has been leading projects MapInfluenCE, analyzing China and Russia's influence in Visegrád countries; China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe (CHOICE), a think net of more than 230 China analysts focusing on Chinese activities in Central and Eastern Europe; and Women Insight on China (WiCH), a collaborative platform promoting voices of female China analysts in Europe. She was a Fulbright scholar at Columbia University, NYC, and an advisor to Vice-President of the European Commission on Defense of Democracy package.