Deborah Brautigam is one of the preeminent scholars of the China-Africa relationship and serves as the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy and director of the China Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. Dr. Brautigam is also the author of numerous books, including Will Africa Feed China? (2015), The Dragon’s Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa (2010), and Chinese Aid and African Development: Exporting Green Revolution (1998). Before joining SAIS in 2012, she taught at Columbia University and American University. Dr. Brautigam has been a visiting scholar at the World Bank, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, and advised more than a dozen governments on China-Africa relations. She earned her B.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University, an M.A. in law and diplomacy and Ph.D. in international development from the Fletcher Scho