Giulia Dal Maso

Giulia Dal Maso is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, affiliated with the Department of Asian and North African Studies. Her research focuses on the intersections of financialization, green finance, and statecraft in China and Asia, while also examining financial practices in Thailand, Portugal, and Eastern Europe.

• Academic Background: Ph.D. in Culture and Society (Western Sydney University), MSc and BSc in Development Studies (University of Bologna), with language training at Tsinghua University
• Research Projects: Principal investigator for CHINGREEN (EU H2020-funded), and contributor to HAU Impact (ERC grant), GEOFIN (ERC grant), and Global Real Estate (ARC grant) projects

Research Interests encompass financialization processes, green finance strategies, political ecology, and the role of the state in financial crises. Her work critically examines how financial instruments are used for environmental governance and how crises reshape financial expertise.

Key Themes across her publications include:

• Temporal dimensions of green finance (2024-2025)
• State-capital dynamics in China's financial markets (2020-2023)
• Environmental toolification through digital platforms (2023)
• Global expansion of Chinese green financial instruments (2020-2022)

Methodological Approach combines ethnographic fieldwork with political-economic analysis, particularly evident in her work on retail investors' behavior in China (2015-2023) and comparative studies of financialization across Asia and Europe.