Keren Zhu is a Global China Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center. She holds a Ph.D. in Policy Analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Her research focuses on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), global infrastructure, international development and program evaluation. She holds an M.Sc. in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford and a B.A. in English from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Before working as a researcher at the RAND Corporation in the United States, she served as the international affairs manager at Research and Development International, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences from 2015-2017 and as a consultant at the International Labor Organization from 2014-2015.