LSE Global South Dialogue Series | Shanghai Cooperation Organization Development Bank: Origin and Progress
Hosted by LSE IDEAS
On Zoom
Wednesday 25 March 2026 1pm - 2pm
LSE Global South Dialogue Series VI: Shanghai Cooperation Organization Development Bank: Origin and Progress
This Global South Dialogue webinar examines the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Development Bank, exploring its origins, institutional development, and progress to date. The discussion analyzes the bank's role in regional infrastructure financing, its relationship with member states, and its positioning within the evolving landscape of multilateral development finance institutions.
The event is the sixth event in the Global South Dialogue Series.
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Meet the Speakers
Jiejin Zhu is a professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs and the deputy director of the Centre for UN and International Organizations Studies at Fudan University. His research interests are international organizations, global governance and international political economy. He has published 5 books and over 80 papers in academic journals, including the Pacific Review, Global Policy, International Organizations Research Journal, World Economics and Politics (in Chinese), Foreign Affairs Review (in Chinese) among others. Currently, He is doing the research on China’s Rise and Global Governance Reform.
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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