Lucy Corkin

Lucy boarded her first flight when she was just three weeks old and she has been hooked on travel ever since. She has lived and worked in some of the world's most exciting cities, including Hong Kong, Luanda, Rio de Janeiro, Beijing and London. Thanks to enrolling on the prestigious RMB Class Of Programme in 2012, Lucy can now add the exciting world of Corporate and Investment Banking to her travels.

Her passion for culture and communications steered her towards the study of international relations, and after a short stint in corporate communications, she pioneered ground-breaking research into Chinese public financing in African countries.

In 2008 she was awarded the First National Bank Laurie Dippenaar Award for international post-graduate study and three years later completed her PhD at SOAS, University of London on Chinese public infrastructure financing in Angola. Her work was published as Uncovering African Agency: Angola’s management of China’s credit lines by Ashgate in February 2013, launched at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) in Johannesburg and at Chatham House in London in June and July 2013 respectively.

Prior to this Lucy was Projects Director at Stellenbosch University’s Centre for Chinese Studies (CCS) in South Africa where she participated in research on China’s relations with African countries, particularly in the construction and finance sector.

As part of her Class Of rotation, she has worked with RMB’s Country Risk and Mining Resources Credit teams as well as RMB. At the moment, Lucy is the Business Manager for RMB Africa at RMB.