Margaret Myers

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Professional Affiliation

Director, Asia and Latin America Program, Inter-American Dialogue

Expert Bio

Margaret Myers is director of the Asia and Latin America Program at the Inter-American Dialogue. She has published extensively on China’s relations with the Latin America and Caribbean region, including in her co-edited volumes, The Political Economy of China-Latin America Relations and The Changing Currents of Trans-Pacific Integration: China, the TPP, and Beyond. Myers has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate on the China-Latin America relationship and is regularly featured in major domestic and international media. She is a member of the faculty at Georgetown University and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Myers previously worked as a Latin America analyst and China analyst for the US Department of Defense. She was a Council on Foreign Relations term member, a recipient of the Freeman Fellowship for China studies, and a Fulbright Specialist, researching China-Colombia relations in Bogotá.

Expertise

Economics and Globalization
Global Governance

Wilson Center Project

The Drivers of Change in Modern China-Latin America Relations

Project Summary

Over the course of more than two decades, the China-Latin America relationship has not only grown at a remarkable pace, but is also increasingly multidimensional, as a wider range of Chinese, Latin American, and external actors shape commercial activity and other decision-making across the region. This book project will aim document, through a series of carefully-researched vignettes, the primary actors and motivations driving engagement during distinct phases in the modern China-Latin America relationship (mid-1990s to the present).