Filippo Fasulo is the Director of the Italy-China Foundation's Centre on Business Research (CeSIF) and Research Fellow at ISPI. In 2014, he earned a Ph.D. in Politics and Istitutions from the Catholic University of Milan with a dissertation on the concept of power in China's politics that was awarded the Cesare Bonacossa Prize by the University of Pavia. In 2012, he received a MSc in China in Comparative Perspectives at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Since 2011, he has been lecturing on China-related topics at the Catholic University of Milan. He is also Academic Secretary for the course in Far Eastern Studies at the Accademia Ambrosiana in Milan. Since 2014, he has been a board member of the Institute for Public Administration Science (ISAP - Istituto per la scienza dell'amministrazione pubblica).

His research focus is on Asia with particular interest in China at both the domestic and international levels.