Join us at the Latin America Centre for a fascinating discussion on Chinese FDI in Latin America with our special guests Margaret Myers and Angel Melguizo, moderated by Departmental Lecturer Laura Trajber Waisbich, as part of our lecture series on Technology and Development. The discussion will center around the findings of Margaret and Angel’s recently published report, “‘New Infrastructure’: Emerging Trends in Chinese Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean,” which analyzes the changing priorities of Chinese FDI in Latin America toward innovation-based industries like telecommunications, fintech, and energy transition. www.thedialogue.org/analysis/new-infrastructure-emerging-trends-in-chinese-foreign-direct-investment-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean

Margaret Myers is the director of the Asia and Latin America Program at the Inter-American Dialogue. She has published extensively on China’s relations with the Latin America and Caribbean region, including in her co-edited volumes, The Political Economy of China-Latin America Relations and The Changing Currents of Trans-Pacific Integration: China, the TPP, and Beyond. Myers has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate on the China-Latin America relationship and is regularly featured in major domestic and international media. She is a member of the faculty at Georgetown University, the George Washington University, and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Ángel Melguizo is a non-resident senior fellow with the Asia and Latin America Program at the Inter-American Dialogue and a senior economist consultant based in Colombia and Spain, specializing in public policies, economic growth and digital regulation. Melguizo is founder and partner of Argia, a consulting firm on green, tech and economics. He is also a senior advisor for UNESCO on artificial intelligence and a consultant for multilateral organizations on digital and greentech policies. Melguizo is a visiting fellow of the European Council on Foreign Relations, and a board member of CCLATAM think tank.

Laura Trajber Waisbich is a Departmental Lecturer in Latin American Studies and the Director of the Brazilian Studies Programme at the University of Oxford. Her areas of expertise include foreign policy, international development cooperation, policy transfer, citizen participation in policymaking, state-society relations, open government, and human rights. For over a decade, she has researched and published extensively on Brazilian Foreign Policy and the politics of South-South cooperation, closely following civil society engagement with and mobilization around ‘Global’ China, India, and Brazil.