René W.H. van der Linden is lecturer & researcher at the International Business program of The Hague University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. Together with Piotr Lasak, he published The Financial Implications of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in 2019 and Financial Interdependence, Digitalization and Technological Rivalries in 2023.
Piotr Lasak is an Associate Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. His research focuses on topics related to international financial markets development, including financial market regulation and supervision, mechanisms of financial and currency crises, digitalization of the financial sector, and shadow banking system development (especially in China).