Team

Debora V. Malito, Principal Investigator

Debora V. Malito is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Xi’an Jiaotong- Liverpool University (PRC). She completed her PhD in Political Studies from the University of Milan and held research positions at the European University Institute and University of Cape Town. Her work surrounds questions of inequality in international politics. Her current research interests engage issues of knowledge production, infrastructure in global development financing and international interventions in the reordering of states and political orders. Her publications have appeared in journals such as International Peacekeeping, Politikon, Peace Review and Third World Quarterly; she is the author of Destabilising Interventions in Somalia (Routledge 2020) and co-editor of the Palgrave Handbook of Indicators in Global Governance (2018) with G. Umbach and N. Bhuta.

Dianhan Hu, Research Assistant, data collection on Chinese infrastructural development

financing in Tanzania.

Jiani Li, Research Assistant, data collection on Chinese infrastructural development financing in

Djibouti.

Qianyue Qiao, Research Assistant, scoping review of the literature

Zhiyue Tang, Research Assistant, web contents and visual materials

Weiyi Zhang, Research Assistant, data collection on Chinese infrastructural development

financing in Kenya and datasheet coordinator.

Sihan Wu, Research Assistant, data collection on Chinese infrastructural development financing

in Ethiopia and Uganda.