Professor Shirley Ze Yu is a leading voice in China’s political economy and techno-geopolitics, the Director of China-Africa Initiative at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa, the LSE, and a Senior Practitioner Fellow with Harvard Kennedy School. She is also a professor at the IE Business School and an Honorary Distinguished Foreign Faculty Professor at the National Defence University, Islamabad.
Shirley Yu is a member of the Davos Expert Network on China, 5G, and geo-economics. She is an Op-Ed contribut to the FT, WSJ, South China Morning Post, among others. She is a frequent commentator and contributor to global news outlets, including the BBC, Bloomberg, CNN, and Al Jazeera
She is also a frequently speaker at leading global think tanks and research institutions, including the Chatham House, Asia Society, Harvard University, Cambridge University, Oxford University, the LSE, and others.
Shirley serves as non-executive board of directors for a diverse portfolio of global companies. She is uniquely positioned to advise Fortune Global 100 companies and multilateral institutions on the economic and strategic risks/opportunities with the central thesis of China and Chinese techno-geopolitics.
She has a Ph.D. in political economy from China’s Peking University and a Master’s degree from Harvard University.
She looks forward to engaging with leading global stakeholders on the global impacts of China.