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Wei Luo is currently a PhD student of Jinan University in Guangzhou, China. He was born in Guangzhou China, but moved to California at the age of ten. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in February 2009. He attended Occidental College from August 2010 to May 2014, majored in Diplomacy and World Affairs and graduated with a magna cum laude. During his time at Oxy, he studied abroad at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and the St. Petersburg State University in St. Petersburg, Russia. He also interned in Udaipur, India during Summer 2011 with the Indian NGO Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) though the Northwestern University’s Global Engagement Summer Institute (GESI). This was partly driven by his academic interest in sustainable development. During the summer of 2013, he worked as an undergraduate research assistant at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) of the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS). Following his graduation from Oxy, he attended the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and received a Master of Science (MSc) in International Relations degree.

As an ISEP student fellow, Wei is currently conducting work on the environmental impacts of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which include projects funded by the newly established Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), and the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).