Prof Alvaro Mendez

Professor Alvaro Mendez is Director of the Global South Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a Senior Associate Fellow at LSE IDEAS. He is Professor of China’s Diplomacy and the Global South at Sciences Po Paris. At LSE he co-teaches the course China and the Global South and is Convenor and Chief Examiner of Foreign Policy Analysis. At Fudan University in Shanghai he is Professor of China & International Development and of Global Governance & International Organizations, and has held the status of Foreign Expert, awarded by the People’s Republic of China, since 2022. He is a Founding Member of the Colombian Council of Foreign Affairs and Editor in Chief of The Handbook of International Relations Theory and the Global South. His research explores China’s global engagement, Latin American foreign policy, and the political economy of development. His books include The China-Latin America Axis, The Political Economy of China-Latin America Relations, and China and Latin America: Development, Agency and Geopolitics. His articles have appeared in Geopolitics, Global Policy, The China Journal, and Foreign Policy Analysis, among others.