Benjamin Creutzfeldt is a Resident Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Prior to this he was the Resident Postdoctoral Fellow for Sino-Latin American-US Affairs at the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC. He earned a degree in Chinese Studies from the University of Durham (UK) and earned his MA from SOAS, whereupon he joined Christie’s as an auctioneer and expert for Chinese porcelain and works of art. He has studied and worked extensively in China and co-founded multiple start-up companies. He received his PhD in 2015 for research on China’s foreign policy towards Latin America.