Welcome! I am Ji (Mira) Qi, a third-year PhD candidate at the Institute for Global Public Policy, Fudan University, supervised by Prof. Haoqi Qian. From October 2025 to September 2026, I am a visiting doctoral researcher at Heidelberg University at the Chair of International and Development Politics under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Axel Dreher. I hold a dual master’s degree in Global Political Economy from Fudan University and the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Bachelor of Arts from Shanghai International Studies University.

My research lies at the intersection of international political economy, climate finance, and global development. I study how international climate and development finance shapes socioeconomic outcomes in low- and middle-income countries, with a particular focus on Sub-Saharan Africa and emerging donors such as China. I work on three main research areas: (1) international climate and development finance; (2) China’s role in global climate governance; (3) inequality and institutions in the Global South.