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Elisa Gambino @drelisagambino.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

In the latest issue of @iajournal.bsky.social International Affairs, you can read my latest paper, titled "Beyond Trade? Chinese private capital under the African Continental Free Trade Area" 📖 Open access: doi.org/10.1093/ia/i... @globaldevinst.bsky.social

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Call for abstracts, Seed Panel: The New South in Global Development 📍 @iobua.bsky.social Conv. by @indrajitroy.bsky.social (@york.ac.uk) & @drelisagambino.bsky.social (@globaldevinst.bsky.social) www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...

EADI/IOB 2026: Shaping Sustainable Futures: Global Challenges, (G)local Solutions?
29 June – 2 July 2026, Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium

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The University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk · 16/10/2025

From Manchester for the world. We are proud to launch our bold strategy to 2035. Together, we're redefining what a great civic University looks like for the 21st century. Visit our webpage to explore our ambition in full: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/manche...

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School of Environment, Education, and Development @uomseed.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Based on extensive research in China, Ghana and Kenya, @drelisagambino.bsky.social from @globaldevinst.bsky.social has co-written this article for @theconversation.com on how Chinese construction companies are changing the way they do business in Africa 👉 theconversation.com/chinese-comp...

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Chinese companies are changing the way they operate in Africa: here’s how

African governments and other local actors have a crucial role to play in shaping the activities of Chinese firms.

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Global Development Institute @globaldevinst.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Our latest podcast episode features GDI's Elisa Gambino, interviewed by colleague Rory Horner about her latest paper: 'Flexible embeddedness: how Chinese lead firms internationalise in Africa'. This is a fantastic episode which you can now listen to right here: www.buzzsprout.com/2017560/epis...

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Elisa Gambino @drelisagambino.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

The latest paper I wrote with Costanza Franceschini (Leiden), which came out on @ripejournal.bsky.social, inspired a piece for @theconversation.com 👌 You can now read it here: theconversation.com/chinese-comp... The original paper is open access at: doi.org/10.1080/0969...

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Chinese companies are changing the way they operate in Africa: here’s how

African governments and other local actors have a crucial role to play in shaping the activities of Chinese firms.

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Development Studies Association @devcomms.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

📧 @drelisagambino.bsky.social and @indrajitroy.bsky.social invite you to join a new mailing list for sharing knowledge and support on the roles of rising powers – both state and non-state actors – in shaping international development. Sign up: www.devstud.org.uk/studygroup/r...

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Global Development Institute @globaldevinst.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

GDI's Elisa Gambino (@drelisagambino.bsky.social) and colleague Costanza Franceschini have published a new open-access paper examining the internationalisation of Chinese lead firms in Africa. Learn more about the paper in the video below, and read in full here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Global Development Institute @globaldevinst.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

We are so excited to welcome all of our new and returning students to GDI this September 🎉 Our Welcome Week will kick off on the 22 September, an important week to meet everyone and learn about the semester ahead. Here you will find all of the timetable information you will need: bit.ly/3HycQEu

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Elisa Gambino @drelisagambino.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

🚨 Publication alert on #RIPE (with Costanza Franceschini)! We outline how Chinese lead firms strategically move across and combine different forms of embeddedness to sustain internationalisation in African markets - a practice we term 'flexible embeddedness'. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Flexible embeddedness: how Chinese lead firms internationalise in Africa

The ‘rise of the South’, and particularly that of China, has promoted lively debates around the centrality of Southern firms in shaping the contours of twenty first century economic globalisation. ...

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Elisa Gambino @drelisagambino.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

I’m beyond excited to share that I have just been appointed to a permanent (!!) position as Lecturer in Globalisation, Trade and Development at the Global Development Institute! Thank you to all the colleagues, friends, and mentors who have supported me ♥️ Can’t wait to start in Sept 2026

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Development Studies Association @devcomms.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

The Rising Powers study group has two new convenors: @indrajitroy.bsky.social and @drelisagambino.bsky.social. They’ll be coordinating future activities including a mailing list and possible conference activity. Get in touch with them if you’d like to be part of this newly energized group.

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Jana Hönke @janahoenke.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Great panel on networks of opportunity, Chinese entrepreneurs and African brokers @ECAS2025 this morning! Organised by Constanza Franceschini and @drelisagambino.bsky.social

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Global Development Institute (GDI) Students for Palestine @gdi-students-4-pal.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

We invite submissions for the Interdisciplinary Conference on “Palestine & Social Justice: Decolonisation and Development Studies.” Key dates · Submission ends: 30/06/2025 · Notification of acceptance: 30/07/2025 · Conference: 26/09/2025 See the full Call: tinyurl.com/m6zhyv56

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Elisa Gambino @drelisagambino.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Last week, I had the pleasure of sharing the findings of my research project on the growing presence of Chinese private capital in Ghana with the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre 🇬🇭 Thank you Deputy CEO and colleagues for the invite - look forward to more engagement! @globaldevinst.bsky.social

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Elisa Gambino @drelisagambino.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Chinese ambassador to Togo addressing the participants of the conference Reconstruire le monde, 70 ans après Bandung, currently being held in Lomé, Togo

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Elisa Gambino @drelisagambino.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

✌️Happy to share I was awarded a BA/Leverhulme Small Grant for my project: "Regulating African markets from afar? Chinese tech giants and South-South trade" @globaldevinst.bsky.social

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Elisa Gambino @drelisagambino.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Next week, I'll join a panel of speakers at UCL's Policy & Practice series to discuss the topic "High quality development? China's changing economy", focusing on the implications for China's international economic relations. 27th March, 6:15 pm, register here: lnkd.in/df78s2T8

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Elisa Gambino @drelisagambino.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

The deadline for #ECAS2025 is today! With Costanza Franceschini from Leiden, I am co-organising a panel on networks, intermediaries, and brokers in the context of South-South engagement in Africa. Please consider submitting to our panel: guarant.eu/ecasconferen...

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