Deborah Bräutigam has been writing about the fact and fiction of China and Africa, state-building, governance, and foreign aid for more than 20 years. Her most recent book, Will Africa Feed China? (Oxford University Press, 2015), sheds light on the contrast between realities, and the conventional wisdom, on Chinese agricultural investment in Africa. She is also author of The Dragon’s Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa (Oxford University Press, 2010). She blogs at China in Africa: The Real Story.
Bräutigam is currently Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy, Director of the International Development Program and founding director of the China Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. She has also held faculty appointments at American University, Columbia University, the University of Bergen, Norway, and has been a senior research fellow with the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, D.C. Bräutigam has twice won the Fulbright research award. She is also a recipient of fellowships from the Council on Foreign Relations and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Her research and work with CARI has been funded by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the U.K. Centre for Economic Policy and Research, Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the Economic and Social Research Council.
She has served as a consultant for Transparency International, the United Nations, the World Bank, DFID, GIZ, DANIDA, the African Development Bank, and USAID, and has provided commentary to the Financial Times, The New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, National Public Radio, Al-Jazeera, Voice of America, CCTV, and MSNBC. Her Ph.D. is from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.
