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Yuezhou is a development and political economy researcher with expertise in African state capacity in natural resource management and Chinese overseas investment strategies.
Her research explores the political economy of land, infrastructure, and resource governance in the Global South, with a particular focus on Chinese capital in Africa. She is currently working on two projects: (1) the politics of state expropriation for public infrastructure, drawing on evidence from Kenya’s compulsory land acquisition and compensation for Chinese-sponsored projects; and (2) the politics of critical mineral governance, examining the implications of rising competition between Chinese and American firms in the context of renewable energy transitions.
Yuezhou received her doctoral and master’s degrees from the Department of International Development at LSE and an MSc in Bioenergy from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Currently, she is a Departmental Lecturer in Development Studies at the Oxford Department of International Development.
Read her recent publications here: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-5289-1753