Francisco Urdínez is Associate Professor at the Political Science Institute of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where he directs the Center for Asian Studies and the Millennium Nucleus on the Impacts of China in Latin America (ICLAC), funded by the Chilean Ministry of Science. He is the author of Economic Displacement: China and the End of US Primacy in Latin America, published by Cambridge University Press. Since 2019 he has edited the Revista de Ciencia Política, and during 2022 and 2023 he was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. His work focuses on international political economy and emerging powers, with particular attention to China’s relations with Latin America and to Chinese economic statecraft. He received a joint PhD in International Relations from the University of São Paulo and King’s College London.