The Boston University Global Development Policy Center seeks an Academic Researcher or Senior Academic Researcher with a strong background in China and international financial institutions to lead our China and the International Financial Architecture work stream at the Global China Initiative.

The Global China Initiative (GCI) was founded to advance policy-oriented research on China’s overseas economic activity and engagement with international institutions in order to enable financial stability, human well-being, and environmental sustainability. Within GCI, research is conducted across four programs: Energy and Climate, Forestry, Agriculture and Indigenous Rights (FAIR), China and the International Financial Architecture, and Data Analysis for Transparency and Accountability (D.A.T.A.). 

The Academic Researcher or Senior Academic Researcher will lead policy oriented research on:

China and the Global Financial Safety Net; China and Global Development Finance; China and the sovereign debt restructuring architecture.

The primary responsibilities of the Academic Researcher or Senior Academic Researcher will be to conduct rigorous and policy-oriented research on topics related to China’s engagement both inside the legacy Bretton Woods institutions and outside through a network of newer bilateral and multilateral institutions that China has joined or co-founded in this century. The Academic Researcher or Senior Academic Researcher will also be the team leader for GCI’s China and the international financial architecture group, synthesizing and managing research across the group and representing the group at internal and external meetings.

This is an in-person position at Boston University.