Giulia Dal Maso

Giulia Dal Maso is a researcher at Ca’ Foscari University and the Asia Research Institute in Singapore, where she focuses on financialization and sustainability processes in Asia. Since 2008, she has regularly conducted fieldwork in China, where she has studied the financial market, green investments, and the social transformations linked to economic development. She holds a PhD in Culture and Society from Western Sydney University (Australia), with a dissertation on financialization in China, and has subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sydney, Trinity College Dublin, and the University of Bologna.

She was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow from 2021 to 2024 and has carried out research periods at international institutes such as ICS in Lisbon, the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Amsterdam. She is the author of the monograph Risky Expertise in Chinese Financialization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), and her articles have been published in leading international journals, including Dialogues in Human Geography, Valuation Studies, Journal of Cultural Economy, Historical Materialism, and Finance and Society.

She also contributes to journals and public media outlets (Jacobin, Made in China Journal, Focaal) and is active in academic networks such as FinGeo, the Finance and Society Network, and CHERN.