Ivy Wei YE is a Research Assistant Professor at The Institute for International Affairs, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. She also serves as a Research Fellow at the Afro-Sino Centre of International Relations (Ghana). Previously, she was a Visiting Scholar at the College of Development Studies, Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia). Her current research focuses on China-Africa relations, international development, the BRICS, and knowledge production of the Global South. Her work has been published in the Journal of Contemporary China and African Studies Review, among others. She is the author of the book China’s Education Aid to Africa: Fragmented Soft Power (Routledge, 2023) and various book chapters and policy papers.