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Fábio Guilherme Colombo is a PhD candidate in International Relations at the School of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ISCSP-ULisboa). He holds a Master's degree in International Relations from the same institution, and a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), in Brazil. He has a PhD scholarship from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), is a Researcher at the Orient Institute (IO-ISCSP) and a Visiting Assistant Professor at ISCSP. His research areas are International Political Economy and Geoeconomics, with a focus on the connectivity strategies of China and the European Union.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Fábio Guilherme Colombo

Citation names

  • Colombo, Fábio Guilherme
  • Colombo, Fábio

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
F51A-3718-01BE
ORCID iD
0000-0002-7151-7803

Email addresses

  • fgcolombo@edu.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Political Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
German Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
French Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2021 - 2025
Ongoing
International Relations (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Portugal
2019 - 2021
Concluded
International Relations (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Portugal
"China’s rising influence in the international system: the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as geoeconomic instrument of structural power projection in the 2010s " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
17
2014 - 2018
Concluded
International Relations (Bachelor)
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
"Chinese development in the 20th and 21st centuries: the Beijing Consensus " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
17
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2022/07 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto do Oriente, Portugal
2024/02/26 - 2024/12/25 Visiting Researcher (Research) Brussels Institute for Geopolitics, Belgium

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2023/09/01 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2021 - Current Owner Konektiq , Portugal
2018 - 2021 Marketing/commercial manager (remoto) Safety Concepts (Hong Kong), China
2016 - 2018 English teacher Wizard Idiomas (Florianópolis, Coqueiros), Brazil
2015 - 2015 Marketing assistant Ação Júnior (Empresa Júnior), Brazil
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
2014 - 2014 English teacher Wizard Idiomas (Novo Hamburgo), Brazil
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022 - Current Manifestations of structural power in the European Union's and China's connectivity strategies: the Global Gateway and the Belt and Road Initiative in the 21st century
2022.11798.BD
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto do Oriente, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Costa, Carla; Gaio, Gabrieli; Colombo, Fábio Guilherme. Corresponding author: Costa, Carla. Great Powers Geoeconomic Competition in Supply Chains: Evidence from the Lithium Triangle. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. 2025.
    Accepted
Book chapter
  1. Costa, Carla; Colombo, Fábio. Corresponding author: Costa, Carla. "Brazil at a Crossroads: Hedging between China’s and the European Union’s Connectivity Strategies". In The Palgrave Handbook on Geopolitics of Brazil and South Atlantic. United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.
    Accepted
Journal article
  1. Colombo, Fábio Guilherme. "Asian Infrastructure Bank as a financing element of the Belt and Road Initiative: demonstration of China's ability to provide public goods in the international system". DAXIYANGGUO: Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Asiáticos 25 (2020): 3–21-3–21. https://ioriente.iscsp.ulisboa.pt/images/DaxiyangguoOnline/2020/FullIssue.pdf.
    10.33167/1645-4677.DAXIYANGGUO2020.25/pp.3-21
Online resource
  1. Gras, Elisa Díaz; Colombo, Fábio Guilherme. Positioning BRICS in Time and Space. 2024. https://big-europe.eu/publications/2024-12-05-positioning-brics-in-time-and-space.
  2. Colombo, Fábio Guilherme; Prášil, Matej. Corresponding author: Colombo, Fábio Guilherme. The Geopolitical Games: Paris 2024. 2024. https://big-europe.eu/publications/2024-07-27-the-geopolitical-games-paris-2024.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "China's rising influence in the international system: the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) as geoeconomic instrument of structural power projection in the 2010s". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/22613.

Other

Other output
  1. Chinese development in the 20th and 21st centuries: the Beijing Consensus. o Consenso de Pequim. 2018. Colombo, Fábio Guilherme. https://repositorio.ufsc.br/handle/123456789/192942.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/02/06 Economic Security and the US Strategy for Securing Critical Minerals: Insights from the Southern African Lobito Corridor 2025 West Point Social Sciences Seminar
United States Military Academy at West Point (United States)
2024/08/12 EU FDI Screening as a Geoeconomic Tool: Integrating Open Markets and Economic Security Helsinki Geoeconomics Week
Geoeconomics Society (Helsinki, Finland)
2024/06/20 Infrastructure Financing on the Belt and Road Initiative: China’s Quest for Structural Power 2024 CEEISA-ISA Joint International Conference - Knowing the global-local: imagining pasts, debating futures
Central and Eastern Europe International Studies Association | International Studies Association (Rijeka, Croatia)
2024/06/04 Manifestations of Structural Power in the European Union’s and China’s connectivity strategies: The Global Gateway and the Belt and Road Initiative in the 21st century Strange Times: The Future of Global Capitalism
London School of Economics | King's College London (Londres, United Kingdom)
2024/03/11 A dimensão energética do poder estrutural: a Belt and Road Initiative e a Global Gateway Conferências de Primavera
Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau (CCCM) (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/12/07 Conectividade e Poder: a Belt and Road Initiative e a Global Gateway Open lecture: EU-China relations geoeconomics (given under the discipline "Geopolítica e Geoestratégia" of the Undergraduate International Relations course)
Universidade da Beira Interior (Covilhã (remoto), Portugal)
2023/09/29 Project implementation in the Belt and Road Initiative and the Global Gateway: a comparative study of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and the Africa-Europe Green Initiative III Congresso Internacional: Diálogos Interculturais Portugal-China
Instituto Confúcio - Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2023/06/27 A Case for Structural Power: The Shaping of the World Energy System by the European Union’s and China’s Connectivity Strategies 29th International Conference for Europeanists: Europe’s Past, Present, and Future: Utopias and Dystopias
Council for European Studies (Reykjavík, Iceland)
2023/03/31 Infrastructure Financing on the Belt and Road Initiative: China's Quest for Structural Power XI Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Ciência Política
Associação Portuguesa de Ciência Política (Covilhã, Portugal)
2023/03/10 Manifestações de poder estrutural nas estratégias da União Europeia e da China: a Global Gateway e a Belt and Road Initiative Conferências de Primavera
Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau (CCCM) (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/09/08 Geoeconomia estrutural: a Belt and Road Initiative e a Global Gateway como instrumentos geoeconómicos da China e da União Europeia III SEPERI - Seminário de Pesquisa em Relações Internacionais
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Florianópolis, Brazil)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/03/13 - 2023/06/07 Acordo UE-Mercosul: Uma análise SWOT dos impactos geoeconômicos para o Brasil (Trabalho de Seminário)
Supervisor
Relações Internacionais (Degree)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2024/10 - 2024/11/28 Looking back, looking forward: a conversation with Josep Borrell (2024/11/28 - 2024/11/28)
Other (Other)
Brussels Institute for Geopolitics, Belgium
2024/09 - 2024/10/23 A conversation on economic security (2024/10/23 - 2024/10/23)
Other (Other)
Brussels Institute for Geopolitics, Belgium
2024/01/01 - 2024/07/31 Next Generation: You! (3ª Edição) (2024/03 - 2024/07)
Other (Co-organisor)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Portugal

Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2024/03 - 2024/06/18 "What can culture do?" Roundtable (2024/06/18 - 2024/06/18)
Round table (Other)
Brussels Institute for Geopolitics, Belgium
2024/02/26 - 2024/03/26 BIG 003 - Energy Diplomacy: Report Launch Event (2024/03/26 - 2024/03/26)
Other (Other)
Brussels Institute for Geopolitics, Belgium
2023/01 - 2023/07 Next Generation: You! (2ª edição) (2023/03 - 2023/07)
Other (Co-organisor)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Portugal

Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/04/11 - 2024/04/11 Participação como convidado: Mesa Redonda - Alunos do ISCSP
Conference
25 Anos da transição de Macau para a República Popular da China – 35 Anos de Instituto do Oriente – 45 Anos de Relações Diplomáticas Portugal-China
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto do Oriente, Portugal
2023/05/18 - 2023/05/18 II Conferência ISCSP de Estudos Políticos, Estratégicos e Internacionais
Conference
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Portugal
2022/04/28 - 2022/04/28 VI Conferência Internacional sobre Terrorismo Contemporâneo
Conference
Conferência Internacional sobre Terrorismo Contemporâneo
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Portugal
2017/09/26 - 2017/09/28 VIII Semana Académica de Relações Internacionais
Conference
VIII SemanaRI - O Brasil no Sistema Internacional: Trajetórias e Perspectivas
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
2014/10/20 - 2014/10/20 VII Colóquio Brasileiro em Economia Política dos Sistemas-Mundo
Seminar
Blocos Econômicos, Potências Emergentes e a Questão da Hegemonia: uma perspectiva histórico-mundial
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil
2014/09/23 - 2014/09/26 V Semana Académica de Relações Internacionais
Conference
V SemanaRI
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2025/02 - Current China in Europe Research Network - CHERN WG 1 Member - Strategic sectors and infrastructure development
2025 - Current Standing Group on International Relations - European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Member
2023 - Current Council for European Studies (CES) Membro
2023 - Current European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) - Standing Group on the European Union Member
2024/06 - 2025/06 Asociación Latinoamericana de Ciencia Política (ALACIP) Student Member
2022/10 - 2023/10 Association for Asian Studies Membro

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/09 - Current Relações Económicas Internacionais Relações Internacionais (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Portugal
2022/02 - Current Geoeconomia Relações Internacionais (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Portugal
2024/11/08 - 2024/12/12 Aula "Compreender a Geoeconomia" ministrada no âmbito do Curso de Especialização "Compreender a Política Internacional" (Diploma de especialização) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2024 Global Europe Prize
República Portuguesa - Secretaria de Estado dos Assuntos Europeus, Portugal

Brussels Institute for Geopolitics, Belgium
2024 Young Geoeconomist Award
Geoeconomics Society, Finland