Oyintarelado Moses is the data analyst and database manager for the Global China Initiative at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center. Her research covers Chinese loans to Africa, finance for development, and China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its alternatives. She previously worked at the Export-Import Bank of the United States and the China Africa Research Initiative. Moses earned a MA in China studies and international economics from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, a certificate in Chinese and American studies from the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, and a BA in political science and Chinese language from Duke University.
Africa received an average of $35 billion per year for fossil fuel and clean energy projects over the past decade. That amount was enough to address the continent’s energy finance gap, but unequal distribution has left many countries behind.
