Tang Xiaoyang is a resident scholar at the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy and an Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at Tsinghua University. His research interests include political philosophy, China’s modernization process, and China’s engagement in Africa. At the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center, Tang’s research focuses on China-Africa relations, with a particular emphasis on the differing aid models and dynamics in Africa between countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and China.
Before he came to Tsinghua, Tang worked at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, D.C. He also worked as a consultant for the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and various research institutes and consulting companies.
