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Deborah Brautigam is the Director of the China Africa Research Initiative and the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy Emerita at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
A Sinologist with extensive Africa research experience, her most recent books include The Dragon’s Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa (Oxford UP, 2010) and Will Africa Feed China? (Oxford UP, 2015), and Taxation and State-Building in Developing Countries (Cambridge UP, 2008). Before joining SAIS in 2012, she taught at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and American University’s School of International Service (SIS). A firm believer that scholars can bridge the gap between research and policy, Dr Brautigam has been a visiting scholar at the World Bank, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and advised more than a dozen governments on China-Africa relations. She has twice won the Fulbright research award and is a recipient of fellowships from the Council on Foreign Relations, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and research grants from the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the UK Centre for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR), and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Her PhD is from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. |
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