Obert Hodzi is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Liverpool, UK. His research focuses on agency and political elites, the politics of human rights and development, and non-Western emerging powers in global governance with empirical expertise in China and Africa. Prior to joining the University of Liverpool, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has been a visiting researcher at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies (Ethiopia), Nordic Africa Institute (Sweden), Renmin University of China and the African Studies Centre at Boston University. He also worked for international and regional organizations in Zimbabwe, Kenya and Germany on democratic governance and transitional justice projects – and he is admitted as a Legal Practitioner in the High Court of Zimbabwe. His latest book is The end of China’s non-intervention policy in Africa (2019).
