Dr.Gu Jing is the Director of Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies. Dr. Gu is a political economist with extensive experience in research and advisory work of governance, business and sustainable development. She advises government and business in China and Africa and was an invited expert witness on“China and DFID”to the British Parliament's International Development Committee. Dr. Gu has led many interdisciplinary research projects involving multi-country teams, including the ground breaking pioneering research on China's outward investment in Africa. Her teaching, research and advisory work focus on China's international development strategies and foreign policy, BRICS and South South Cooperation. She is a member of the International Editorial Board of Third World Quarterly.