Jacob Mardell

Jacob Mardell is the Lead Analyst at Sinification and the Non-Resident Fellow for Global Realignment at the China–Global South Project. A former analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies, he has spent the past eight years tracking ‘Global China’, with a particular focus on the BRI, Chinese outbound investment and competition with China in third markets. His work combines data-driven research with fieldwork in more than 20 BRI countries.