Ankur Shah: Silk Road Explorer Investigating Progress of Belt and Road Projects
Voices of the Belt and Road Podcast: Understand the Impact of China on the World · Voices of the Belt & Road Podcast
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Ankur Shah (安然) is a Yenching Scholar at Peking University and National Geographic's Young Explorer. He earned a degree in Chinese and Russian from the University of Edinburgh. During his studies, he spent 15 months living between Sichuan and St Petersburg and worked on the Trans-Siberian Express from Moscow to Vladivostok. Afterward, Ankur worked at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris on the organization's Silk Road Online Platform.
The desire to explore saw Ankur partake in a 23,000 km Silk Road expedition, sponsored by the National Geographic, driving from Venice to Xi'an. Ankur spent 4 months retracing the footsteps of Marco Polo across 16 Silk Road countries, researching China's Belt and Road initiative, interviewing key stakeholders and visiting 16 Belt and Road projects across Eurasia.
On this podcast, Ankur Shah shares his observations from his visits to Belt and Road Project's sites and stories from his expedition following footsteps of Marco Polo along the Silk Road.