Multi-level Governance and Chinese State-Owned Enterprises in Africa

This second seminar in the series on multi-level governance focuses on Chinese state-owned enterprises that are active in Africa. The two speakers will discuss the activities of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOE) in Africa, and pay particular attention to differences between various categories of, and competition among, such firms. Just like the Chinese state is represented in Africa through multiple ministries and at various sub-national levels, there is a variety of state agencies involved in administering Chinese SOE in Africa. The aim of this seminar is to highlight and discuss how such differences in SOE background relate to the ways in which Chinese economic influence evolves in Africa. The seminar closes with a brief Q&A session.

Speakers

Sanne van der Lugt has a background in Anthropology and International Studies. She has lived in China and South Africa and her research focus is on the political economy of China-Africa relations. As a Research Analyst at the Centre for Chinese Studies at Stellenbosch University in South Africa she organized and conducted fieldwork in various countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. She is currently working for the Dutch economic research consultancy Profundo for which she is coordinating a research project on the impacts of Chinese trade and investment on biodiversity in Africa.

Meine Pieter van Dijk has a PhD in Economics from the Free University Amsterdam, and is an economist and professor of Water Services Management at UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft, professor of entrepreneurship at Maastricht School of Management (MSM) and professor of Urban management at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) and at the Institute of Housing and Urban development Studies (IHS) of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam (EUR), all in the Netherlands. He is member of the research schools CERES and SENSE. He has worked on and in developing countries since 1973 and as a consultant for NGOs, the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, different bilateral donors and UN agencies.

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