Dr. Yuval Givon completed his doctoral studies in the Department of History at Tel Aviv University. His dissertation focused on the reconstruction of Jesuit communication and news channels between China and Europe during the dynastic transition from Ming (1368–1644) to Qing (1644–1911). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters (CSoC) at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 2022 and at the Department of History at Harvard University from 2022 to 2024. Additionally, he was an Associate Visiting Scholar at the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at Boston College during the 2023–2024 academic year.

Givon specializes in early modern history, particularly in the communication between Western Europe and China during the seventeenth century. His research focuses on the unique contribution of a Catholic order—the Society of Jesus—to making long-distance communication systems, travel routes, and information networks between Europe and Asia. Her current research project investigates the Society of Jesus' involvement in the search for overland connections between Europe and China during the seventeenth century.