Niva Yau

Niva Yau is a resident researcher at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek and a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Insistute in Philadelphia. Her works focus on China’s foreign policy, trade and security posture in the western pheriphery, including Central Asia and Afghanistan. She has conducted a number of comissioned research on China affairs in Central Asia, concerning security engagement, private security companies, Belt and Road Initiative, governance export, influence campaigns, renewable investments in Central Asia, viability of the Northern trade corridor, and more. Originally from Hong Kong, Ms Yau has been based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan since 2018, and was awarded the Albert Otto Hirschman prize for best political economy writing in 2020 by The Washington Post. Ms Yau is fluent in Chinese, English and a keen learner of Russian.