Maria Haro Sly is a Ph.D. candidate at Johns Hopkins University, where she is a fellow of the Arrighi Center for Global Studies. She graduated in Sociology and Political Science from the Federal University for the Integration of Latin America (Brazil). She holds a master’s degree in international relations from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) and an LLM in Contemporary China Studies from the Silk Road School at Renmin University of China. Haro Sly was executive coordinator at the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation of Argentina. She was a consultant at the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and Capital Continuum Advisers. Her research was published in Nature, SAGE, Routledge, UNESCO, and Palgrave, among others. Her research focuses on the political economy of China-U.S.-Latin America relations, tech innovation, green finance, and development policies.