Dr. Zongyuan Liu

Dr. Zongyuan “Zoe” Liu is the Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow for China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City. She teaches in the capacity of an adjunct faculty member at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) of Columbia University and Columbia Business School. She is also a Senior Research Scholar at the Institute of Global Politics at SIPA and a Wilson China Fellow. Dr. Liu’s work focuses on international finance, sovereign wealth funds, industrial policies, and the geoeconomics of energy transition. Her regional expertise is in East Asia and the Middle East. Dr. Liu is the author of Can BRICS De-dollarize the Global Financial System? and Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances its Global Ambitions. The book Sovereign Funds is the 2024 Winner of the PROSE Best Book Award in Business, Finance, and Management. Dr. Liu received her PhD in international relations from Johns Hopkins University. She is also a Chartered Financial Analyst charterholder. Her paper on BRICS Collective De-dollarization Statecraft received the 2021 Best Paper Award from the International Studies Association (West).

In this week’s lecture, Dr. Liu will examine the interplay of complementarity and diversion within the U.S.–China economic and financial systems, and explore what these dynamics mean for the long-term trajectory of U.S.–China rivalry.