Theresa FALLON is a senior associate at the European Institute of Asian Studies (EIAS). Her area of specialization is energy and her current research areas are EU-Asia relations and Asian maritime disputes. She has briefed NATO, the EU Council Working Group on Asia (COASI) and US Army Headquarters Europe (USAREUR). Prior to joining EIAS in 2008, Ms. Fallon worked in Beijing from 2003 to 2007 as a researcher and consultant and delivered presentations at the Chinese Academy of Social Science and participated in scenario simulations at the Central Party School. In the 1990s she contributed to the Centre for Global Energy Studies in London, and to Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Paris. She wrote on energy and current affairs for Saudi Arabia’s Al Eqtisadiah, the International Arab Business Daily. From 1998 to 2003 she was the Moscow representative of PlanEcon, a research and consulting firm. Ms. Fallon was educated at Loyola University, The University of Chicago and the London School of Economics and Political Science.