africa

Africa at a Fork in the Road: Taking Off or Disappointment Once Again?
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; and PhD in Political Economy
from Harvard University.
Deborah Brautigam
Professor of International Development and Comparative Politics, Johns Hopkins
University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
At SAIS, Deborah Brautigam is Director of the International Development Program
and the China Africa Research Initiative. A leading expert on China in Africa, she is
the author of The Dragon’s Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa (2010) and Chinese
Aid and African Development: Exporting Green Revolution (1998). She is also
co-editor of Taxation and State-Building: Capacity and Consent (2008) as well as
numerous articles published in academic journals and public affairs media. She
previously served as Associate Professor and Director of the Economic and Political
Development Program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public
Affairs, Professor at American University’s School of International Service, and Visiting
Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway. She was a resident fellow with
the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, senior research fellow at
the International Food Policy Research Institute, and Council on Foreign Relations
International Affairs Fellow at the World Bank. She regularly advises international
agencies and governments on China-Africa economic engagement. She holds a
PhD in International Development from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
at Tufts University.
Olivier Cattaneo
Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University
Olivier Cattaneo is an international consultant with expertise in international trade
and development. He is also a lecturer at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs
at Yale University and a Program Associate at the European University Institute in
Florence. He has previously worked at the World Bank, the OECD, and in a range
of French ministries. He has taught international trade at various institutions, including
the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and the University of Paris I Panthéon
Sorbonne. He was a World Fellow at Yale University, and a Fellow with the Institute
of International Economic Law at Georgetown University. A member of the New York
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