Monique Taylor

Dr. Monique Taylor is a University Lecturer in World Politics in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki and a Research Affiliate at the Lau China Institute, King’s College London. Previously, she was a Senior Researcher in the Department of Cultures at the University of Helsinki University, a Postdoctoral Fellow in Public Policy and Global Affairs at Nanyang Technological University, a Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore, and a Lecturer at the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland. She received her PhD in International Political Economy from the University of Queensland.

Monique’s current research focuses on the geopolitics of technology and the changing security architecture of the Indo-Pacific region. She has a longstanding interest in China’s political economy and is the author of two books: China’s Digital Authoritarianism: A Governance Perspective (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan 2022) and The Chinese State, Oil and Energy Security (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan 2014). Her most recent publications include ‘The Petroyuan’s Challenge to Dollar Hegemony’, Global Pulse China (2024) (online first), and ‘The Digital Yuan: Purpose, Progress and Politics’, Made in China Journal (2023) (online first), and ‘From Alipay to the Digital Yuan: China’s Fintech Revolution’, Asia Paper, (2023). Upcoming publications include articles on the impacts of the Sino-Russian alignment on world politics and the dissemination of AI-powered surveillance technologies that enable transnational repression by authoritarian governments.