Yuan Wang

Following completion of her DPhil in Politics at the University of Oxford in 2021, Yuan Wang is now a postdoctoral fellow with the Columbia-Harvard China and the World program.

Her research interest is state effectiveness and China’s economic and political engagement with Africa. Her dissertation project investigated why Chinese-financed and -constructed projects develop along starkly different trajectories in different African countries. Before Oxford, Yuan served the China office of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Sino-Africa Centre of Excellence Foundation’s (SACE Foundation) Nairobi office. Yuan holds a Master of Science (MSc) in Politics Research from Oxford, a Master of Public Policy (MPP) from Harvard Kennedy School, and a Bachelor of Law in International Relations from Shanghai International Studies University.

Personal website: yuan-wang.org

Recent article: Y. Wang, Executive Agency and State Capacity in Development: Comparing Sino-African Railways in Kenya and Ethiopia, Comparative Politics, July 2021, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5129/001041522X16225661565091.

CLD Research Brief, 2022: National Champions as ‘Learning Institutions’: CSR Norm Acquisition by Chinese SOEs during the Belt and Road Initiative.