China-Africa Initiative
China has become Africa’s largest investor, biggest trading partner, and increasingly a soft power influencer. It is clear that China’s role in Africa’s future will be both complex and enduring.
The China-Africa Initiative actively contributes to student-led programmes and the Programme for African Leadership, while aiming to encompass multi-stakeholder perspectives and engage multi-disciplinary discourses in the social sciences and arts and humanities. In addition to regular publications on FLIA public platforms, the Initiative will demonstrate a commitment to broaden China-Africa research projects, working with departments at LSE and globally.
The Initiative will strive to enlighten, debate, influence and inspire Chinese engagements in Africa.
The Initiative will strive to enlighten, debate and, where possible and appropriate, influence and inspire Chinese engagements in Africa through research, policy engagements and events, including China-in-Africa conferences, workshops and exhibitions.
Dr Shirley Yu | Director of the China-Africa Initiative
Shirley Ze Yu is a leading voice on China’s political economy, an Asia Fellow with the Ash Center of Harvard Kennedy School, an adjunct professor with the IE Business School and a member of the Davos Expert Network on 5G, geopolitics and geoeconomics.
Email: s.yu19@lse.ac.uk