Sumner Fields

About Sumner Fields

Sumner Fields is a fourth-year double major in Political Economy and Linguistics. He is passionate about economic development and business trends in East and Southeast Asia and works as an assistant for the Haas Socially Responsible Investment Fund. Fields has studied abroad on scholarships from the Charles C. Huang Fund and the Korea Foundation in China and South Korea respectively and this past summer interned at a Shanghai-based American NGO think tank, Joint U.S. China Collaboration on Clean Energy, creating urban policy recommendations for the China Academy of Governance. Sumner is proficient in Mandarin and Spanish, and enjoys learning more Swedish, Catalan, and Korean. Outside of academics and work, Fields is the house manager of Delta Phi Epsilon foreign service fraternity and enjoys watching Catalan politics and Swedish crime dramas.

Opportunity or Dependency?: Rethinking China in Latin America

16 Oct, 2015 in Research Blog tagged China / Latin America by Sumner Fields

After the market downturn in China this summer, the region of the world perhaps reeling the most from the uncertainty hanging over China is Latin America. A commodities boom of the previous two decades seems to have come to a halt as a slew of commodity-hungry Chinese manufacturers face the looming more »