China, Africa and the future of development aid

Lovise Aalen

Aalen is a political scientist focusing on democracy, governance and women's employment and empowerment in the Horn of Africa.

She has researched Ethiopian politics for the last two decades. She has focused on the implementation of ethnic federalism, the EPRDF’s ideas of revolutionary democracy and the developmental state, regime-youth interactions, and female political participation in authoritarian contexts. She has also written about Chinese support to education and training in Ethiopia.

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Stein Sundstøl Eriksen

Eriksen is a research professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and editor of the Forum for Development Studies.

His work (with Muhidin Shangwe) focuses on relations between Tanzania and China and the role of Chinese development aid. He has also worked on India’s development aid and its role in Africa.

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Xuefei Shi

Xuefei Shi is a cultural anthropologist and development researcher focusing on Madagascar, East Africa and the Indian Ocean.

He is a post-doctoral researcher in the European Research Council (ERC)-funded project “Transoceanic Fishers: Multiple Mobilities in and out of the South China Sea” (TransOcean) at CMI. His research focuses on trans-Indian Ocean seafood trade, Sinophone maritime worlds, and China’s social and ecological footprint in East Africa.

He received my PhD in Development Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He has extensive field experience in the Southwest Indian Ocean and East Africa region, along the multiethnic Swahili coast, the great island of Madagascar, and the Mascarene Archipelago.

He is an expert on China and the global governance with more than 10 years’ experience. He provided policy consultancy to development studies/projects funded by World Bank, UNESCO, WWF, Oxfam and Ford Foundation. He writes on the role the China’s provinces in Chinese development aid to Africa.

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Elling N. Tjønneland

Political scientist focusing on development and development assistance, rising powers and African development and a strong emphasis on South Africa and Southern Africa.

Tjønneland is a political scientist with more than 30 years of experience focusing on a range of development issues and development aid and with a strong geographical focus on Africa, South Africa and Southern Africa. He has led numerous international assessment and evaluation teams commissioned by a range of Norwegian, international and African institutions.

He is editor of Chinese Development Aid and Africa: What, How and Why. His contributions examine China’s Africa engagement and the role of development aid with case studies of its aid to health,  peace and security, and the African Union. He also examines China role in the evolving and changing global aid regime.

He has field experience from many countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This includes Angola, Botswana, Cambodia, China, Cote d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malaysia, Malawi, Mocambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Palestine, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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Hans Jørgen Gåsemyr

Hans Jørgen Gåsemyr is a senior researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI).

His background includes social science and Chinese language and area studies from Norwegian and Chinese universities. His MA and PhD degrees are in Political Science. He works on China’s foreign policy. He writes on China’s global and international engagement and its role in relation to development aid through multilateral institutions.

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