December 2018

Shoujun Cui is the Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at Renmin University of China (RUC). He is also an Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Department of Diplomacy at the School of International Studies at RUC. Cui has been an International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) Visiting Fellow to the U.S. Department of the State and a visiting fellow of the E.U. Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange project. His research interests focus on China’s foreign policy, China’s relations with developing countries (Latin America in particular), and energy geopolitics. He is a co-author of the books China and Latin America In Transition: Policy Dynamics, Economic Commitments, and Social Impacts published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2016 and Building Development for a New Era: China’s Infrastructure Projects in Latin America and The Caribbean published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2018.

Natalia Cote-Muñoz serves as one of four Latin Americans selected for the inaugural class of China and Latin America Young Scholars for the Inter-American Dialogue. Her work on security and human rights in Latin America has been published and/or referenced by Harvard’s Latin America Policy Journal, the United Nations Development Programme, and Huffington Post, among other media outlets. She was a Princeton in Asia Fellow at China Foreign Affairs University, and has worked in a variety of institutions including the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy and the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. She holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and B.A. in Political Science with honors from Swarthmore College. She is fluent in English, Spanish, and French, and holds advanced proficiency in Mandarin.

Benjamin Creutzfeldt is a Resident Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. He has studied and worked in China for three decades and spent several years as a university lecturer in Latin America, where he witnessed the growing impact of China first-hand. Prior to his appointment as a Wilson Fellow, he was Resident Postdoctoral Fellow for China-Latin America-U.S. Affairs at the Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies.

Rebecca Ray is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Global Economic Governance Initiative (GEGI) at Boston University. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and an M.A. in International Development from the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. Since 2013, she has focused her GEGI research on Latin America, including the annual China-Latin America Economic Bulletin series, the book project China and Sustainable Development in Latin America: the Social and Environmental Dimension, and her current project, Safeguarding Sustainable Development in the Andean Amazon.