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Corinne Estermann studied Sinology, Economics and Political Science at the University of Zurich. During her Bachelor studies, she spent an academic year at Shanghai International Studies University, where she focused on Chinese language and history. She subsequently pursued a double Master of Science in International Affairs at the London School of Economics and Peking University. At Peking University, she focused on China’s political economy, domestic and foreign economic policy, and global economic governance. At the London School of Economics, her studies centred on international political economy, the political economy of trade, and the diplomatic history of the twentieth century, with further specialization in empire, colonialism and globalisation. Her Master's​​ dissertation examined British representations of China's proto-industrial and commercial potential between 1834 and 1849.

Her professional experience is focused on multilateral cooperation, with roles in international organisations and Swiss economic and development policy, including work with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development EBRD, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank AIIB, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD and United Nations Industrial Development Organization UNIDO.

In September 2026 she started her PhD project at the University of Lucerne, where she researches the invocation of universality in discourse on the economic development trajectory of the Republic of China (1911–1949).