Pon Souvannaseng

Pon Souvannaseng has a doctorate from the London School of Economics & Political Science. A political economist by training, she researches the intersection of private and public sector actors in comparative global infrastructure lending and energy development in Asia and Africa. She is particularly interested in the financialization of infrastructure and South-South asymmetric dependency. Pon has a strong interest in how the political economy of development, international affairs, and environment and energy research intersect. Pon has held a Mansfield-Luce Asia Fellowship (2020-2022), a Wilson Center China Fellowship (2021), an APSA Asia Scholarship (2019-2021), and is a Non-Resident Visiting Fellow of the East-West Center, Washington DC. Her research has been supported by US Fulbright, UK Research & Innovation, Japan Foundation and Bentley Research Council grants. She has served as a researcher at the UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) & ASEAN Labour Secretariat. She is a Research Affiliate of the Centre for Crisis Studies & Mitigation at the University of Manchester. Pon is a Network B Organizer for the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) and Board Member of the Thai, Lao, Cambodia (TLC) Studies Group of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS).