Didi Kuo is a nonresident scholar at Carnegie California. She is also a center fellow at the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University and associate director for research at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. She is a scholar of democratization and political parties. Her first book, Clientelism, Capitalism, and Democracy: the Rise of Programmatic Politics in the United States and Britain, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. She received a PhD from Harvard University, an MSc from Oxford University, where she studied as a Marshall Scholar, and a BA from Emory University.