Jo Inge Bekkevold is a Senior Fellow at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies/Norwegian Defence University College, where he teaches geopolitics. He was the head of the Asia program at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies from 2011 to 2018.
His research focuses on China’s foreign and security policy, China-Russia relations, China in the Arctic, Asian security issues, the wider geopolitical ramifications of China’s rise, and international order. His publications include India’s Great Power Politics: Managing China’s Rise, co-edited with S. Kalyanaraman (Routledge, 2021), Sino-Russian relations in the 21st Century, co-edited with Bobo Lo (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), and China in the Era of Xi Jinping: Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges, co-edited with Robert S. Ross (Georgetown University Press, 2016).

Bekkevold is a frequent contributor to the Foreign Policy magazine, writing on topics related to China, geopolitics and international order. Bekkevold previously spent more than ten years as a career diplomat in the Norwegian Foreign Service, with several postings to China and East Asia.