Hafliði Sævarsson

Sessional Lecturer in Chinese Studies

University of Iceland

Hafliði Sævarsson holds an MBA in Management Consultancy and among various roles works as a Sessional Lecturer of Chinese Studies at the University of Iceland. He worked in China for a decade in banking and diplomacy, and as director of the Iceland Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo. He has studied Economics, Politics and Sinology at the universities of Utrecht, Leiden, Kyoto, Peking and Wales. His research interests include Resource Economics, Free Trade and Political Economy. He has written about international relations for a number of news outlets in Iceland on a wide range of topics, from espionage in Asia to Castro´s Cuba. Hafliði is also active in visual arts and has held and curated a number of exhibitions as well as authored and illustrated a children´s book published in 2022.