Dr Mandira Bagwandeen has experience working with think tanks, local and international corporate companies, and lecturing at universities in South Africa. She is a Senior Research Fellow at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance at the University of Cape Town (UCT), where she focuses on Africa’s regional integration and industrialisation, as well as China-Africa relations. She also lectures at various UCT departments on international relations and the political economy of Africa-China ties.