Department of Politics and International Studies
Zhang Ziao
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- Qualifications
- Ziao is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS, University of London. Her research examines the ongoing restructuring of Chinese Local Government Financing Vehicles, with a broader focus on Chinese state capitalism, local governance, public finance, and political economy.
- Email address
- 733755@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title
- Restructuring China’s Local Government Financing Vehicles: Political Economic Transformation and Socioeconomic Consequences
- Internal Supervisors
- Dr Matthew Eagleton-Pierce & Professor Ulrich Volz
Biography
Ziao Zhang is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS University of London. Her research focuses on the restructuring of Chinese Local Government Financing Vehicles (LGFVs) and their implications for Chinese state capitalism, with broader interests in global political economy, financial governance, and state-market relations.
Ziao holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from Grant MacEwan University (Canada), where she developed an early interest in international political economy through the study of Eurozone integration and the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis. She subsequently completed a Master’s degree in International Relations at University of Sydney (Australia), specialising in political economy and global monetary systems.
She later earned an MSc in International Political Economy from London School of Economics and Political Science (U.K), where her dissertation examined premature financialization in Brazil and Argentina and its impact on state autonomy and social welfare. In 2024, Ziao joined the Intellisia Institute as a researcher in the Global Health sector, analysing international trends in health investment, policy, and governance. Her work combines economic analysis with comparative policy research across multiple regi
Research interests
- Chinese Political Economy
- State capitalism and state-market relations
- Global political economy and development
- Financialisation and its socio-political impacts
