Dr. Xiuil Han is a Professor in International Law at School of law of Xiamen University and the deputy director of the Africa Research Center (ARC) of Xiamen University in Fujian Province of China. She holds a doctorate in international law from Xiamen University and a visiting scholar in several universities abroad, and a Hauser Global Research Fellow at School of law of New York University. She is the author of Legal Protection and Sustainability of Chinese Investments in Africa---Under the Concept of International Investment Rule (Springer, 2022) and Environmental Protection Involving Chinese Overseas Investment: From the Perspective of International Investment Law (Law Press, 2013). In the past decade, she has devoted herself to exploring investment-related issues in international investment law. She is also interested in African research and has done field works in some African countries.