Oyintarelado (Tarela) Moses

Oyintarelado (Tarela) Moses is the Data Analyst and Database Manager for the Global China Initiative at the Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center. Her research covers Chinese loans to Africa, finance for development and China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its alternatives. Prior to joining the GDP Center, she worked on the international relations team of the Export-Import Bank of the United States as a policy analyst. She also worked at the China Africa Research Initiative as a research assistant and interned at the US Development Finance Corporation as a political risk insurance graduate assistant. At these institutions, she researched and analyzed political risks, development finance and the global export credit market. Tarela earned a M.A. in China Studies and International Economics from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a certificate in Chinese and American Studies from the Hopkins-Nanjing Center and a B.A. in Political Science and Chinese Language from Duke University.