Ameya Joshi is a macroeconomic and policy researcher working on critical minerals, sovereign debt, development finance, and economic statecraft across the Indo-Pacific. His research examines how China’s global lending and industrial policy are reshaping supply chains and strategic options for developing economies, and how the United States, Japan, Australia and India are responding. Currently based in Virginia, he is a Program Manager at AidData, William & Mary, where he works on China’s sovereign lending architecture and its financing of critical mineral extraction and processing across low- and middle-income countries. He has also served as a GPODS Fellow at the GPI Quad Forum in New Delhi, leading research on Indo-Pacific trade architecture and economic governance, and previously interned at the South African Reserve Bank. He holds an MA from Johns Hopkins SAIS, where he focused on Economics and China Studies. He also holds a B.Com from the University of Mumbai and is a Chartered Accountant.