Pao Engelbrecht is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Politics specializing in International and Comparative Political Economy. His research focuses on great power competition and non-state actors, notably development banks and the private sector. Pao received his BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Manchester, and an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford. Before coming to Princeton, he has been a Mercator Fellow at the World Bank and at Germany’s Ministry of Finance, as well as a Pre-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Chicago.