Jessica Britzwein is a final year Bachelor’s degree student at Zeppelin University studying Sociology, Politics, and Economics. She joined the organizing team of the Transcultural Leadership Summit in 2019 and meanwhile focuses her research in the Transcultural Student Research Group 2021 on civil society interactions with the Belt and Road Initiative.

Aleksandra Balasinska is currently studying for her Master’s degree in Cross-cultural Communication at the University of Warsaw. She also finished a Bachelor’s degree at the SWPS University in the field of Asian Studies. In the TSRG 2021 research project, in the group with Jessica Britzwein, she is focusing on how the BRI initiative impacts civil society. Other than that, she is fascinated by the Chinese language, and is interested in reading, drawing and hiking.