Janet Eom

Janet Eom is an Associate at EY-Parthenon in London, where she works on corporate strategy and private equity-focused due diligence projects, including across the education sector. She is also a Non-Resident Research Associate at the China-Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC, where she was the former Research Manager. In this role, she led studies on Chinese economic engagement in Africa and oversaw efforts to communicate insights to policymakers.

Her research on Chinese investment in Africa has taken her to Tanzania, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Djibouti. Previously, she worked on China-Africa issues in the strategy and policy unit of the Office of the President of Rwanda and at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She has also worked at the World Bank on development issues. Her writing on China-Africa relations and foreign affairs has been published in The China Quarterly (Cambridge University Press), The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and Axios.

Janet holds a Bachelor of Arts in social studies from Harvard University. She also holds a Master of Global Affairs, with a focus in economics and business, from Tsinghua University, where she was a Schwarzman Scholar.