Ning Leng
McCourt School of Public Policy
Ning Leng is an assistant professor at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy. She conducts research in comparative politics with a focus on political economy, political institutions, policy process, and Chinese politics. She is a member of the Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues faculty committee.
Activities include:
- Author of Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-State in China (Cambridge University Press, 2025), which reveals how the Chinese state solicits political services from companies, resulting in an unstable investment environment and unintended development outcomes.
- Working on a second book project on Chinese investments in South America.
- Selected as a 2025-26 Wilson China Fellow.
- Research supported by the National Science Foundation, the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, the Institute for Humane Studies, and various other research grants.
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