Author: Lina Getachew Ayenew
Lina Getachew Ayenew is an author and independent consultant focused on China-Africa policy and market research. After receiving her undergraduate and master’s degrees from Yale University, she moved to China to teach at the prestigious Xiangya Medical School through the Yale-China Teaching Fellowship. Following a corporate stint in Beijing, she began her efforts to closely study the influence of the Asian giant in her homeland, Ethiopia. Most recently, she has been working with the Ethiopian Tourism Organization (a government entity) to define Ethiopia’s tourism brand and promote it in China. Lina is a native speaker of Amharic and English, fluent in French and highly proficient in Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. She hopes her reports on Africa-China relations will not only inform her readers but also expand the debate on China’s role in Africa’s development.
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