Summary
Ameya Joshi is a Program Manager for the Loan Performance Team at AidData’s Tracking Underreported Financial Flows (TUFF) unit, where he actively contributes to the analysis of official Chinese-financed debt data collections and reschedulings from over 120 countries. He holds an M.A. from Johns Hopkins SAIS and a B.Com from the University of Mumbai and is also an Associate Member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
Education
M.A., International Relations, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Relations (SAIS)
Chartered Accountant, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
B.Com., Commerce and Finance, University of Mumbai
Background
After graduating from the University of Mumbai, Ameya worked in Accounting and Finance in Mumbai before being selected as a Global Policy, Diplomacy and Sustainability (GPODS) Fellow with Global Policy Insights (GPI), an India-based think tank. After the Fellowship, Ameya served as the Project Coordinator for the GPI Quad Forum, working on facilitating events and research publications among the Quad diplomatic an academic community in New Delhi. He then moved to Washington, D.C., in 2022 to start a graduate program in International Relations at Johns Hopkins SAIS, focusing on International Economics and China Studies.
Ameya was an active member of the SAIS community, serving as Treasurer of the SAIS Student Government Association and several other campus-based administrative and teaching support roles. While at SAIS, he also interned in the Financial Markets Department at the South African Reserve Bank in Pretoria, collaborating with other bank staff on researching the evaluation of foreign capital flows and stagnation in the circulation of notes and coins in South Africa. During his graduate degree, Ameya travelled extensively to Israel, Palestine, South Africa, Taiwan and within the United States for field research.
After graduating with Honors from SAIS in 2024, he interned as a Business Analyst at the International Student House in Washington, D.C. before joining AidData’s TUFF team to contribute to their Loan Performance and Debt Rescheduling dataset. His research interests include analyzing the differences in approaches to sovereign debt restructuring taken by the Paris Club and other bilateral lenders such as China, as well as understanding the strategies employed by development finance contributors, especially in Asia, to offer their products as an alternative to Chinese development finance.