Hong Zhang

Hong Zhang is a 2021-2022 CWP Fellow at Columbia University. She is also a postdoctoral fellow at the SAIS China Africa Research Institute (SAIS-CARI) at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in the 2021-22 academic year. She received her PhD from Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University in 2021. Her research interests include China’s political economy, international development cooperation and foreign aid, and the global expansion of Chinese SOEs. Her doctoral dissertation explains how China’s developmental state extends its core mechanisms in its international development engagements. Her article on the relationship between China’s economic diplomacy and its international construction and engineering contracting industry has been published in the peer-reviewed journal of China Perspectives. Her research has been funded by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange and the SAIS-CARI. She is a member of the editorial teams of the People’s Map of Global China and the Made in China Journal. 

Hong holds a MSc in sociology from London School of Economics and a Bachelor’s degree in economics from Renmin University of China. She had worked for five years as an overseas correspondent with China’s Caixin Media in London and Washington D.C.

For a list of her publications, please see her Google Scholar page.

She tweets @StellaHongZhang.