Professor Xu Xiuli is the Deputy Dean of China Institute for South-South Cooperation in Agriculture (CISSCA) at China Agricultural University, Beijing, P.R. China. Her main research interests include development issues in China’s overseas investment and aid, particularly in African and Asian countries. She is the first author of a series of articles discussing the nature and daily operation of China’s aid and overseas investment, published in the top journals such as World Development and Development and Change.
She was consulted broadly by different ministries of China on China’s overseas development, such as the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Ministry of Finance. She has broad international collaboration experiences with development partners such as the WB, UNDP, IDR, C, and DFID. She was the Chair of the session at the 2nd International Conference: Climate, Sustainability and Development in Semi-Arid Regions in Brazil in 2010. She is the initiator of the public WeChat platform: IDT (International Development Times), which disseminates the frontier knowledge about development studies in China. She has been a visiting scholar based at the Center for Development Studies at the University of Cambridge during October. 2010-Oct. 2011, and IDS in 2013.