Juan P. Acevedo-Ossa is a political scientist affiliated with the Department of Political Science and the Moynihan Center whose research examines hegemony, status, and China's role in the Global South. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the CUNY Graduate Center, where his dissertation analyzed how status concerns shape state behavior in multilateral institutions, and his work combines inferential network analysis with elite interviews. Before academia, he worked in international trade in China, Brazil, and Colombia. His current projects address China and India's competing claims to Global South leadership and the social determinants of Chinese investment in Latin America. His research has appeared in Review of International Political Economy and International Interactions, and he writes for Foreign Affairs Latin America and El País. He is a co-founder of the China at CUNY Initiative and is involved in the Master's in International Affairs at CCNY.