LSE Global South Dialogue Series | “The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB): The First Decade”
Hosted by LSE IDEAS
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Wednesday 22 April 2026 2pm - 3pm
LSE Global South Dialogue Series | “The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB): The First Decade”
The AIIB reached its 10-year mark in January 2026. Tamar Gutner’s talk will take stock of the bank’s first decade by discussing the factors shaping its performance to date and the challenges it must navigate in more fraught geopolitical and development finance landscapes. Her talk draws from her recent book, The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: China’s Multilateral Experiment.
The event is the seventh in the Global South Dialogue Series.
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Meet the Speakers
Tamar Gutner is a Professor of International Relations at American University’s School of International Service (SIS), and a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development. She is an expert on the performance and effectiveness of international organizations, particularly international financial institutions, and their roles in global and regional governance. Dr. Gutner is the author of The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: China’s Multilateral Experiment (2025), International Organizations in World Politics (2023 and 2016) and Banking on the Environment: Multilateral Development Banks and Their Environmental Performance in Central and Eastern Europe (2002). Her scholarly articles have appeared in journals such as World Development, International Organization, Review of International Organizations, Review of International Political Economy, and Global Environmental Politics.
Professor Gutner previously served as a Council on Foreign Relations fellow at the IMF’s Independent Evaluation Office, and her research has been funded by fellowships and grants from The Brookings Institution, MacArthur Foundation, International Studies Association, and American Council of Learned Societies/Social Science Research Council. She is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee.
Professor Gutner holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a master’s degree in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University.
Álvaro Mendez is the Director of the Global South Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and a Senior Associate Fellow at LSE IDEAS. He is Professor of China’s Diplomacy and the Global South at Sciences Po Paris. He is also a Full Research Professor at Rey JuanCarlos University in Madrid, working on a project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation that focuses on strategies for internationalisation, innovation, and social responsibility. Prof. Mendez is also an Associate Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), and a Member of the Colombian Council of Foreign Affairs (CORI). He teaches at LSE, Sciences Po Paris, and Fudan University. Ha has won numerous teaching awards, such as the IR Departmental Teaching Prize in recognition of his teaching of International Relations at the LSE, and he has contributed to numerous books as an author, co-author, or editor of numerous books.
Gregory T. Chin (PhD, York University) is an Associate Professor of Political Science/Political Economy at York University, Canada, and a Senior Fellow of the Global Development Policy Center at Boston University, and of the Foreign Policy Institute at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies. He is Co-Director of the Emerging Global Governance (EGG) Project at Global Policy journal online. He has published widely on the international andc omparative political economy of China, Asia, the BRICS, international money and global finance. Greg worked in the Government of Canada from 2000 to 2007, in Ottawa at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, and the Canadian International Development Agency,2000-2003, and as First Secretary at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing, 2003-2006.
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