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Rebecca Ray is a Research Scholar at the Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, and a post-doctoral fellow at the Global Economic Governance Initiative of the Boston University Global Development Policy Center. Her research focuses on the rising importance of South-South investment and finance relationships, and its impacts on the prospects for sustainable, inclusive economic development in the global South, particularly in Latin America.  More specifically, this focus has directed her research into two areas: the rise of China as a major source of investment and development finance in Latin America, and the emergence of new development banks centered in the global South. She is the lead editor of China and Sustainable Development in Latin America: The Social and Environmental Dimension. She holds a PhD in economics from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and an MA in international development from the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University. Prior to joining the BU GDP Center, she was a research associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC.