Policy Analysis

Mengfan Cheng

Program Manager

Mengfan Cheng served as a Program Manager and Junior Program Manager at AidData from 2016 to 2020.

mcheng@aiddata.org

Summary

Mengfan served from 2016-2020 as a Program Manager for the Listening to Leaders program area and a Junior Program Manager for the Tracking Underreported Financial Flows team. Her responsibilities included business development, client relationship management, project management, and dissemination and outreach. She also oversaw the data collection efforts of the Listening to Leaders team. She received her MS in Public Policy from Georgetown University. Before joining AidData, she worked for Xinhua News Agency and the Brookings Institution, among other news agencies and think tanks.

Education

Background

March 6, 2019

Asking the right questions: AidData to launch third global survey of developing- country leaders

In 2020, we plan to field a new wave of our Listening to Leaders Survey to over 55,000 decision-makers in 140 countries.

Policy Report

Listening to Leaders 2021: A report card for development partners in an era of contested cooperation

Samantha Custer, Tanya Sethi, Rodney Knight, Amber Hutchinson, Vera Choo, Mengfan Cheng

2021-06-30

Policy Report

Kuwekeza Katika Maisha ya Watu wa Kenya

Mihir Prakash, Samantha Custer, Bryan Burgess, Divya Mathew, Mengfan Cheng, Rodney Knight

2020-07-30

Policy Report

Investing in Kenya's People: Valuing the Benefits of the U.S.-Kenya Relationship

Mihir Prakash, Samantha Custer, Bryan Burgess, Divya Mathew, Mengfan Cheng, Rodney Knight

2020-06-17

Methodology

Counting the Costs

Mihir Prakash, Mengfan Cheng, Suzanne Schadel, Marco Kamiya

2020-02-10

Policy Report

Ties That Bind: Quantifying China's public diplomacy and its "good neighbor" effect

Samantha Custer, Brooke Russell, Matthew DiLorenzo, Mengfan Cheng, Siddhartha Ghose, Jacob Sims, Jennifer Turner, Harsh Desai

2018-06-27

Methodology

AidData's TUFF Methodology, Version 1.3

Austin M. Strange, Mengfan Cheng, Brooke Russell, Siddhartha Ghose, and Bradley Parks

2017-10-09

Methodology

AidData TUFF Coder Instructions, Version 1.3

Austin M. Strange, Mengfan Cheng, Brooke Russell, Siddhartha Ghose, and Bradley Parks

2017-10-09