Lin Zhu

Lin Zhu is the Program Manager for the Global China Initiative at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center. Prior to joining the GDP Center, Lin worked at New York University Shanghai as a Global Writing and Speaking Fellow. She is also a contributor to the People’s Map of Global China as well as the China Made Project.

Broadly, Lin is interested in the political economy and political ecology of Global China. Her recent work interrogates Chinese mining investment in Central Peru through an ethnographic lens, looking specifically at the localized social, economic and environmental impacts. Lin holds an M.A. in Human Geography from the University of Colorado Boulder and a B. A. in Geography and Anthropology from Sarah Lawrence College.