Welcome! I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center. I will join the ESADE Business School in Barcelona as a tenure-track assistant professor in international relations/global governance in Fall 2024. I received my Ph.D. with distinction at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in June 2023.

My research focuses on the international and comparative political economy of development, with a regional focus on sub-Saharan Africa and China. Broadly speaking, I am interested in three topics: (1) the impacts of China’s global economic strategy in the Global South; (2) the institutional causes of resource misallocation; (3) the structural transformation of the Global South.

My scholarly work has been featured in academic journals such as the Review of International Political Economy and Energy Policy, as well as in media outlets like The China-Global South Project, and South China Morning Post. Part of my book project won the 2024 Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the International Political Economy Section of the International Studies Association.

Before my Ph.D. training, I graduated from Nanjing University with a B.A. in English in 2016 and obtained my M.A. in International Studies from the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in 2019.