Cynthia Sanborn is Director of the Center for China and Asia-Pacific Studies and Full Professor in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Universidad del Pacífico. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Government from Harvard University, and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. Her research interests and publications cover corporate social responsibility, governance of extractive industries, and China’s presence in Latin America. She has been President of the Board of Directors of the Economic and Social Research Consortium of Peru, Visiting Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and William Henry Bloomberg Visiting Professor at Harvard University.