阿瓦罗·门德斯，伦敦政治经济学院全球南方研究中心主任，伦敦政治经济学院外交和战略研究中心学术主任。他是复旦大学全球公共政策研究院的科技部高端外国专家、中国和国际发展客座教授。

门德斯教授还是日内瓦安全政策中心的副会员和巴黎政治学院拉丁美洲和加勒比地区政治观察的国际顾问委员会成员。他还在伦敦政治经济学院和巴黎政治学院担任教职。他曾多次获得教学奖项，如2003-2004年伦敦政治经济学院国际关系系教学奖等，以表彰他在伦敦政治经济学院国际关系方面的教学工作。

门德斯教授著作丰富，主要包括《哥伦比亚机构与美国外交政策的制定：基于邀请的干预》(Routledge, 2017)、《中拉轴心：新兴市场及其在全球化世界中的作用》(Palgrave, 2018)、《新发展援助：新兴经济与发展援助新格局》(Palgrave, 2020)、《中拉关系的政治经济学：亚投行成员》(Palgrave, 2020)、《中国和拉美：发展、机构和地缘政治》(Bloomsbury,2023)等。

他也是伦敦政治经济学院Millennium – Journal of International Studies的前编辑。他曾在Geopolitics, Global Policy, Asia Business & Management, Sustainability, Journal of Business Research, The China Journal, Asia Pacific Business Review, Finance Research Letters, Foreign Policy Analysis等期刊上发表文章。

研究领域：

国际发展、外交政策、国际关系理论、国际组织、可持续银行(公共和私人)、中国和全球南方、中国与拉丁美洲和加勒比地区

教育经历：

• 2012年，英国伦敦政治经济学院国际关系博士

• 2002年，英国伦敦政治经济学院管理学硕士

• 2000年，英国埃塞克斯大学国际关系硕士

• 1999年，美国肯塔基大学政治学学士

• 1999年，美国肯塔基大学心理学学士

学术论文

• Ubeda, F., Mendez, A., Forcadell, F. J., & López, B. (2024). How socially sustainable multinational banks promote financial inclusion in developing countries. Research in International Business and Finance, 71, 102470. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2024.102470 

• Ubeda, F., Mendez, A. & Forcadell, F. (2023).Sustainable Banking and Trust in the Global South. Global Policy. 

•  Mendez, A. (2023). Latin American Agency: The New Development Bank, Uruguay's Accession and Brazilian Influence. Global Policy.

• Houghton, D. & Mendez, A. (2023). The influence of somatic markers on U.S. Foreign Policy. Foreign Policy Analysis, 19(1).

• Turzi, Mariano, & Mendez, A. (2022). Latin America in/and the AIIB: A Constructivist Analysis. Vestnik RUDN. International Relations, 22(3), 478-494. doi:10.22363/2313-0660-2022-22-3-478-494.

• Ubeda, F., Mendez, A. & Forcadell, F. (2022). The SustainablePractices of Multinational Banks as Drivers of Financial Inclusion in Developing Countries. Finance Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2022.103278.

• Mendez, Alvaro, Forcadell, Francisco Javier, & Horiachko, Kateryna. (2022). Russia–Ukraine crisis: China’s Belt Road Initiative at the crossroads. Asian Business & Management, 21:488–496. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41291-022-00195-1

• Úbeda, F., Forcadell, F.J., Aracil, E., & Mendez, A. (2022). How sustainable banking fosters the SDG 10 in weak institutional environments . Journal of Business Research, doi: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.03.065.

• Mendez, A. & Alden, Chris. (2021). China in Panama: From Peripheral Diplomacy to Grand Strategy. Geopolitics, 26(3), 838-860.

• García , E., Mendez, A. (2021). Mañana Today: A Long View of Economic Value Creation in Latin America. Global Policy, 12(3), 410-413.

• Mendez, A. (2021). Dependency in the Twenty-First Century? The Political Economy of China-Latin America Relations. The China Journal, 85.

• Mendez, A., Forcadell, F.J., & Ubeda, F. (2021). Sustainable Banking in the Global South: ESG Innovations in China. Digital Economy and Innovation Journal, doi: 10.7263/edeij-1-1-006 .

• Mendez, A., & Houghton, D. P. (2020). Sustainable Banking: The Role of Multilateral Development Banks as Norm Entrepreneurs. Sustainability, 12(972), 1-20.

• Mendez, A. (2020). New Development Assistance: The Case of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). The Case Centre (220-0022-1), 1-17.

• Mendez, A. (2020). Enlisting the Gatekeeper: Chain-Referral and Elite Access in Foreign Policy Analysis. SAGE Research Methods Cases: Political Science and International Relations.

• Mendez, A. (2019). Latin America and the AIIB: Interests and Viewpoints. Global Policy, 10(4), 639-644.

著作

• Alden, C., & Mendez, A. (2023). China and Latin America: Development, Agency and Geopolitics. London: Bloomsbury. 

• Mendez, A. & Turzi, M. (2020). The Political Economy of China–Latin America Relations: The AIIB Membership. Palgrave Pivot.

• Fornes, G., & Mendez, A. (2018). The China-Latin America Axis: Emerging Markets and their Role in an Increasingly Globalised World. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave.

• Mendez, A. (2017). Colombian Agency and the making of US Foreign Policy: Intervention by Invitation. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

合著著作

• Herrera, L.C., Montenegro, M., Alden, C., Mendez, A., & Torres-Lista, V. (Eds.). (2021). New diplomatic relations between Panama and China: geopolitical and socioeconomic implications. Panama City, Panama: National Secretariat for Science, Technology and Innovation (SENACYT); Universidad Católica Santa María La Antigua (USMA); London School of Economics (LSE).

• Jing, Y., Mendez, A. & Zheng, Y. (Eds) (2020). New Development Assistance. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Alcalde, J., Alden, C., Guerra, A., & Mendez, A. (Eds.). (2019). La Conexión China en la Política Exterior del Perú en el siglo XXI. Lima, Perú: IDEI & Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.

书章

• Mendez, A., & Forcadell, F.J. (2022). China y America Latina. Diplomacia, comercio y geopolítica. In Gaspard Estrada (Ed.), América Latina Hoy (pp. 174-191). Madrid, Spain: Fundación Felipe Gonzales.

• Mendez, A. (2021). Geopolitics in Central America: China and El Salvador in the 21st Century. In Thierry Kellner & Sophie Wintgens (eds.), China-Latin America and the Caribbean: Assessment and Outlook (pp. 207-221) Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

• Jing, Y., Mendez, A., & Zheng, Y. (2020). New Development Assistance in the Making: An Introduction. In Yijia Jing, Alvaro Mendez, & Yu Zheng (eds.), New Development Assistance: Emerging Economies and the New Landscape of Development Assistance (pp. 1-18). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave.

• Alden, C., Large, D., & Mendez, A. (2020). The Western Way of Development: A Critical Review. In Yijia Jing, Alvaro Mendez, & Yu Zheng (eds.), New Development Assistance: Emerging Economies and the New Landscape of Development Assistance (pp. 19-38). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave.

• Mendez, A., Alcalde, J., & Alden, C. (2019). Introducción: Análisis de la Política Exterior de Perú hacia China en el siglo XXI. In Javier Alcalde, C. Alden, A. Guerra-Baron, & A. Mendez (eds.), La Conexión China en la Política Exterior del Perú en el siglo XXI (pp. 13-24). Lima, Perú: IDEI (Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Perú).

• Alden, C., & Mendez, A. (2019). Perú, China y la nueva multipolaridad – navegar en la política internacional en tiempos inciertos. In Javier Alcalde, Chris Alden, Angelica Guerra-Baron & Alvaro Mendez (eds.), La Conexión China en la Política Exterior del Perú en el siglo XXI (pp. 278-307). Lima, Perú: IDEI & Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Perú.

• Mendez, A. (2018). Global Governance in Foreign Policy. In Cameron G. Thies (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Foreign Policy Analysis (Vol. 1, pp. 793-816). New York: Oxford University Press.

• Mendez, A. (2018). Innovación y Desarrollo: La Academia como Agente de Cambio. In C. I. Moreno & P. Perez Herrero (eds.), ¿Qué universidades necesita el siglo XXI? Reflexiones a cien años de la Reforma de Córdoba (pp. 75-80). Madrid: Marcial Pons.

• Mendez, A. (2015). Discussion on the Global South. In Concepts of the Global South – Voices from around the world. University of Cologne, Germany: Global South Studies Center (GSSC).