Markus Taube holds the Chair of East Asian / Chinese Economic Studies as a member of the faculty of the Mercator School of Management at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He is vice-director of the IN-EAST Institute for East Asian Studies at this university and co-director of the Confucius Institute Metropolis Ruhr. He is a founding partner of THINK!DESK China Research & Consulting, and has been appointed visiting professor at a number of universities in Europe and China. He also holds various advisory positions in European academic, business and political circles. He has published widely in the field of industrial policy and on institutional developments and transformation processes in China. In recent years, the evolution of the Belt and Road Initiative and its implications for global economic governance have become a major area of his research.
In May 2022, he joined the European Institute for Chinese Studies (EURICS).