Cheng BianProfileProfileCheng Bian is a PhD candidate at Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His research interests focus on international investment law, Chinese foreign investment law, international investment dispute resolution, and comparative law. His PhD thesis is entitled ‘The National Security Review Regimes of Foreign Investment - A Comparative Study in China, the US and the EU’. He has made several publications on international journals and edited volumes both in English and Chinese, covering a wide range of topics such as China’s national security review of foreign investment, anti-commercial bribery in China, and sovereign wealth funds. Cheng Bian is a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law Hamburg, Germany in 2016; and a visiting scholar at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Columbia University, the United States in 2017. His academic affiliations include member of the European China Law Studies Association and member of the Netherlands China Law Association. In addition to his involvement in this Jean Monnet Network on ‘EU-China Legal and Judicial Cooperation’, Cheng Bian works as a member of the research project ‘Reforming the Investor-State Dispute Settlement System: European and Chinese Perspectives’, funded by the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Science) since 2016. Cheng Bian has worked as a research assistant at Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam from 2015 to 2018, and a research assistant at School of Law, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law from 2010 to 2012. Cheng Bian holds an LLM in International Law and an LLB in Chinese Law from Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China.Research