Meg Rithmire is F. Warren MacFarlan Associate Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. She holds a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University, and her primary expertise is in the comparative political economy of development with a focus on China and Asia. Her book, Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2015, and her work has also been published in The China Quarterly, World Politics, Politics & Society, and elsewhere.