Who's who
Global South Unit
Professor Chris Alden
Director of the Global South Unit
Director of LSE IDEAS
Professor in International Relations, LSE
Email: j.c.alden@lse.ac.uk
Web: LSE ProfileProfessor in International Relations, LSE; Director of LSE-IDEAS Africa Programme; and a former Programme Head, Global Powers and Africa, South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA).
He is author/co-author of numerous books and reports, including The South and World Politics (Palgrave 2010), China and Latin America (CLSA 2009), China in Africa (Zed 2007), and co-editor of China Returns to Africa (Hurst 2008), Japan and South Africa (Ashgate 2003) as well as articles in internationally recognised journals. He has contributed to research, conferences and publications on the South African foreign policy since 1991, the changing role of China and Africa since 1992 and China and Latin America since 2007.
He has conducted consultancies for the World Bank, the African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, CLSA, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Standard Bank (SA) and Rand Merchant Bank (SA) amongst others.
Professor Alvaro Mendez
Director of the Global South Unit
Senior Research Fellow, LSE
Email: a.mendez@lse.ac.uk
Web: LSE ProfileProfessor Alvaro 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 an Associate Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, as well as an Adjunct Professor at Fudan University in Shanghai.
He teaches International Relations at LSE, Sciences-Po Paris, and Peking University. Mendez is the author, co-author, or editor of numerous books, including Colombian Agency and the Making of US Foreign Policy: Intervention by Invitation (2017); The China-Latin America Axis: Emerging Markets and their Role in an Increasingly Globalised World (2018); New Development Assistance: Emerging Economies and the New Landscape of Development Assistance (2020); and The Political Economy of China – Latin America Relations: The AIIB Membership (2020). He has published articles in journals such as Geopolitics, Global Policy, Sustainability, Journal of Business Research, The China Journal, Finance Research Letters, and Foreign Policy Analysis.
