Senior Research Analyst
Laura is a Senior Research Analyst with Rhodium Group’s China Projects Team, focusing on China’s innovation ecosystem and external economic engagement.
ChinaPrior to joining Rhodium Group, she was a research assistant with the Global Development Policy Center – Global China Initiative at Boston University, where she contributed to the Center’s work on China’s development finance and decarbonizing the Belt and Road Initiative. Laura holds a Master’s degree in Global Policy from Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies and a Bachelor’s degree from McGill University.
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Beijing has not delivered on its promised reforms to its banking system, but has instead tightened control over banks and molded them into policy tools, imposing consequences on both China's economy and its trading partners.
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We provide a granular, product-specific assessment of critical minerals needed for a US nuclear power plant build-out through the mid-2030s and associated key supply chain vulnerabilities.
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China dominates manufacturing of intermediate goods that use critical materials as inputs, creating an additional layer of chokepoints, which Beijing is targeting in its most recent export controls—including outside of China.
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Global clean tech manufacturing investment has moderated after a decade of extraordinary growth. China and the US were the primary drivers of that rise and the subsequent pullback—though the nature of each country's decline differs significantly.
