Wesley Alexander Hill

Assistant Director & Lead Analyst — Energy, Growth, and Security Program  

Wesley Alexander Hill Ph.D. [ABD] is the Assistant Director & Lead Analyst for the Energy, Growth, and Security Program at the International Tax and Investment Center. ITIC’s EGS arm focuses on critical natural resources, energy transformations, infrastructure, and geopolitics in Eurasia while exploring opportunities for investment and policymaking.

Wesley is an accomplished foreign policy professional. Wesley is an expert on grand strategy, geoeconomics, and international relations with a regional specialization in China, Eurasia, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Wesley has unique expertise in Chinese influence in Central Asia and Sino-American energy competition.

Wesley has made media appearances and/or been published in Al Jazeera, Forbes, New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy, Voice of America, Newsweek, The Hill, The National Interest, The Atlantic Council, and more. 

Prior to working with the International Tax and Investment Center, Wesley was a professor at Tulane University, teaching classes in Political Science. Wesley is a fellow of the National Bureau of Asian Research, having conducted research at Beijing’s Tsinghua University and Taipei’s National Normal University. Wesley began his career conducting foreign policy research and analysis on behalf of the office of Congresswoman Dina Titus’ constituent services office.

Wesley graduated from Tulane University.