Alex Caramento is the Project Manager for the African Extractivism and Green Transition project and a PhD Candidate in the Department of Politics at York University, Canada.  He was formerly the Grant Coordinator for the Resource Nationalism in Southern Africa project (2020-2023), which was funded by a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant.  Alex’s dissertation research focuses on indigenous capital formation among Zambian mine suppliers and service providers in the Copperbelt and North-Western Provinces. He has published his research in the Journal of Southern African Studies, Third World Quarterly, and The Extractive Industries and Society.  He has also taught African political economy and international development studies as an adjunct lecturer in the Department of History at Trent University, the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University, the Department of Political Science at the University of Windsor, and the Department of Politics at York University.

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