Chairman & Current Staff
Dr TEH Kok Peng （郑国枰）
Dr Teh Kok Peng is the current Chairman of the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore (NUS), succeeding Professor Wang Gungwu in 2018.
Before his retirement in 2011, Dr Teh served as President of GIC Special Investments from April 1999 to June 2011, and oversaw investments in private equity, infrastructure and international venture funds. Prior to this, he was concurrently Deputy Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore and Deputy Managing Director of GIC. He began his career with the World Bank, joining its Young Professionals Programme in 1975.
Dr Teh was formerly Chairman of Ascendas Pte Ltd and Azalea Asset Management Pte Ltd. He was a member on various boards, including China International Capital Corporation, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Taikang Life Insurance, Sembcorp Industries, Singapore Life Ltd, Seviora Holdings and the Urban Redevelopment Authority. Dr Teh’s contributions also encompassed the higher education sector, where he served on the boards of the NUS, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, and Institute of Policy Studies. Additionally, he was President of the Economic Society of Singapore from 1992 to 1997, succeeding the late Professor Lim Chong Yah.
Dr Teh currently chairs the Advisory Boards of Granite Asia and Seraya Partners. He is also on the boards of Fullerton Health and CM Capital Corporation.
Dr Teh obtained First Class Honours in Economics at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and a Doctorate in Economics at Nuffield College, Oxford University, England. He attended the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School in the fall of 1989.
Prof Alfred SCHIPKE （席睿德）
Prof Alfred Schipke is the director of the East Asian Institute and Professor of the Practice of International Finance at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at NUS. Before joining NUS, he was Director of the IMF–Singapore Regional Training Institute for Asia and the Pacific in charge of technical assistance, training, and research. Prior to that he was Assistant Director and Mission Chief for India and Senior Resident Representative and Mission Chief for China providing policy advice, spearheading analytical work, and coordinating capacity development. He has worked closely with key Chinese economic and financial sector agencies including the People’s Bank of China, the Ministry of Finance, and the financial sector regulatory agencies.
At the IMF, he was also division chief in the Asia and Pacific Department leading the department’s work on fast-growing low-income countries in Southeast Asia (Frontier Economies) and was Mission Chief for Vietnam. In the IMF’s Western Hemisphere Department, he negotiated several successful IMF programs including for El Salvador and St. Kitts and Nevis.
He has taught international finance at Harvard Kennedy School and the National School of Development at Peking University and has authored and edited several books and articles. He is currently also working on China-Africa economic relationships. He holds a PhD from Duisburg-Essen University, an MPA from Harvard, and a BA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Tel: (65) 6516 5067
E-mail: schipke@nus.edu.sg
Dr CHEN Gang（陈 刚）
Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow
Education Background
PhD (Contemporary International Relations), China Foreign Affairs University, 2006
MA (Contemporary International Relations), China Foreign Affairs University, 2001
BA (English), China Foreign Affairs University, 1998
Research Interests
China’s Political Economy
Environmental Governance in China
International Relations
Transnational Cooperation against Climate Change
Dr Chen Gang is Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow of the East Asian Institute (EAI), National University of Singapore. Since he joined the EAI in 2007, he has been tracing China’s politics, foreign policy, environmental and energy policies and publishing extensively on these issues. He is the single author of Politics of Renewable Energy in China (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2019), The Politics of Disaster Management in China: Institutions, Interest Groups, and Social Participation (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), China’s Climate Policy (London and New York: Routledge, 2012), Politics of China’s Environmental Protection: Problems and Progress (Singapore: World Scientific, 2009) and The Kyoto Protocol and International Cooperation against Climate Change (in Chinese) (Beijing: Xinhua Press, 2008). His research papers have appeared in internationally-refereed journals such as Asian Survey, Asia Pacific Business Review, The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, The International Spectator, The Polar Journal, China: An International Journal, The Chinese Journal of International Politics, and The Journal of East Asian Affairs. He provides consultancy for the Singapore government on environmental and energy issues in East Asia. He is a member of the Association of Chinese Political Studies based in the United States. He is frequently interviewed by media like Bloomberg TV, The Wall Street Journal, the BBC, NHK, Channel NewsAsia and Xinhua News Agency. He sometimes gives lectures at the Business School of the National University of Singapore, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore, and Singapore Environment Institute. He helps the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy to design the “Public Sector Risk Management” curriculum for MPA students. He is a member of the Global Emerging Voices program jointly sponsored by The German Marshall Fund of the United States, Stiftung Mercator, Torino World Affairs Institute and Australian National University. He has participated in various international research projects like the “EU-Asia Dialogue” co-funded by the European Union and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) of Germany and the Asian Energy Program sponsored by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.
Tel: (65) 6516 4181
E-mail: eaicg@nus.edu.sg
Ms YUEN Sin（袁 昕）
Senior Associate Director
Master’s in Public Policy and Administration, London School of Economics and Political Science
BA English and Related Literature (First Class Honours), University of York
E-mail: yuensin@nus.edu.sg
Yuen Sin oversees external engagements, partnerships and media relations on behalf of the EAI, as well as strategy development and internal administration (human resources and operations). Before joining the EAI, she led the Singapore practice of a Southeast Asia-focused government affairs and public policy consultancy, and was a correspondent with The Straits Times.
Mr James TAN Swee Thiam（陈瑞添）
Senior Manager
BA (Chinese Studies) (Honours), National University of Singapore
Tel: (65) 65168333
E-mail: eaitanj@nus.edu.sg
Ms Katherine TOH Shi Min（杜诗敏）
Executive, Communications and Outreach
BA (Honours) with Highest Distinction in Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore
E-mail: katherine.toh@nus.edu.sg
Katherine is a recent graduate of Chinese Studies from National University of Singapore. Trilingual in English, Mandarin and Bahasa Indonesia, she enjoys connecting with people from diverse cultures and backgrounds and is passionate about crafting communication across different languages. Her past internship experiences span partnerships, communications and marketing.
Mrs Katie CHEONG （洪美娜）
Management Assistant Officer (PA to Director & Professor Wang Gungwu)
Tel: (65) 6775 2033
Tel: (65) 6516 5067
Email: eaisec@nus.edu.sg
Ms Karen WONG （黄玉明）
Management Assistant Officer
Tel: (65) 6516 3708
E-mail: eaiwym@nus.edu.sg
Goh Keng Swee Professor in China Studies
Prof Jean OI
Goh Keng Swee Professor in China Studies
Prof Jean C. Oi is the inaugural Goh Keng Swee Professor in China Studies at the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore.
She is on leave from Stanford University where she is the William Haas Professor of Chinese Politics in the Department of Political Science and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI). She directs the China Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and is the founding Lee Shau Kee Director of the Stanford Center at Peking University. In March 2022, she was elected Vice President of the Association for Asian Studies, serving as its President from March 2023 to March 2024.
A Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan, Prof Oi first taught at Lehigh University and later in the Department of Government at Harvard University before joining the Stanford faculty in 1997.
Prof Oi’s work focuses on comparative politics, with special expertise on China’s political economy and institutions in the process of reform. Central-local relations in China are the core of her research. Employing a political economy perspective, she has “followed the money”—first grain, then taxes, and most recently local government debt as a window into politics.
Delving into China’s authoritarian resilience, she co-edited a volume on how adaptive governance by local-level institutions has met the challenges and demands from an increasingly complex society that strain resources and the political system as the economy has grown exponentially. More recently, she co-edited a volume that highlights the challenges China now faces after reaping record-breaking growth over the last 40 years by only tweaking the institutions that it inherited from the Mao period. Instead of tackling the most politically difficult part of the reform process, leaders appear to be “going back to the future,” relying on a playbook not seen since the Mao period.
Adjunct Professor
Prof Bert HOFMAN （赫福满）
Adjunct Professor
Prof Bert Hofman, a Dutch national, is Adjunct Professor at the East Asian Institute (EAI) at National University of Singapore (NUS). He was Director of EAI and Professor of Practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy from June 2019 to December 2023. Before joining NUS, he was with the World Bank for 27 years, 22 of which in Asia, and 12 of which on China. Prof Hofman was the World Bank Country Director for China 2014-2019, the Country Economist 2004-2008, and the Chief Economist for the World Bank in the East Asia and Pacific region 2011-2014. He also worked on Indonesia, the Philippines, Korea and Mongolia. Before joining the World Bank, Prof Hofman worked at the Kiel Institute of World Economics, The OECD and NMB Bank (Now ING). He has extensive experience in advising governments around the region on a wide range of development issues, and published on fiscal policy, debt issues, and China’s and Indonesia’s recent economic history.
E-mail: berthofman@nus.edu.sg
Visiting Research Professors
Prof Frank N PIEKE
Visiting Research Professor
Frank N Pieke (1957) studied Cultural Anthropology and Chinese Studies at the University of Amsterdam and the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his PhD in 1992. After lectureships in Leiden and Oxford, he took up the Chair in Modern China studies at Leiden University in 2010. In Oxford, Pieke set up and directed the University of Oxford’s China Centre. In Leiden, he was co-founder and first executive director of the Leiden Asia Centre. Between 2018 and 2020, he was the director of the Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin. Pieke’s research revolves around governance in China and evolution of the Chinese Communist Party, Chinese globalisation and impact of China on Europe. His current project is on “The rise of China and the consequences of superpower”, which asks how China’s emerging superpower status will change China. His most recent books are The Good Communist (2009) and Knowing China (2016), both published by Cambridge University Press. He just completed an edited volume titled Global East Asia that will be published by the University of California Press in September 2021. He could be contacted at fpieke@nus.edu.sg or f.n.pieke@hum.leidenuniv.nl.
Dr P S SRINIVAS
Visiting Research Professor
Professor P.S. Srinivas (Srini) is Visiting Research Professor at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore (NUS). Before joining NUS in 2021, he worked with the New Development Bank in Shanghai, China as Director General, Front Office of the President. Prior to the NDB, he worked at the World Bank in Washington DC, USA for twenty years in a variety of technical and leadership roles in financial and private sector development in the Latin America and Caribbean, South Asia, and East Asian & the Pacific Regions.
He began his international career at the Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines and his professional career at the Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India in Mumbai, India. Having worked in over thirty countries, including in China, Indonesia, India, and the Philippines, over the past three decades, Prof Srinivas has extensive experience in advising governments around the world at the senior-most levels on a variety of development issues.
Prof Srinivas has taught Finance and Public Policy at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India for six years as Associate Professor and Visiting Professor. His current work on China focuses on its financial sector, Renminbi internationalization, and its role as a global creditor, plus global financial architecture reforms and innovations in climate finance.
Prof Srinivas holds PhD and MA degrees from Cornell University; a MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, ; and a B. Tech in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.
E-mail: pssrinivas@nus.edu.sg
Prof Christine WONG
Visiting Research Professor
Prof Christine Wong is Visiting Research Professor at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore and Visiting Professor at the Schwarzman Scholars Program at Tsinghua University, where she had held the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Visiting Chair Professor in International Finance during 2020-2022..
Until March 2020, Prof Wong was Professor of Chinese Studies and Founding Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Melbourne. She remains a Professorial Fellow at the Asia Institute there. From 2007 to 2013, she was Professor of Chinese Public Finance and Director of Chinese Studies at the University of Oxford, and the Henry M. Jackson Professor of International Studies at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington during 2000-2007. She has also taught economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Berkeley campuses; and at Mount Holyoke College.
Prof Wong has held senior staff positions in the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, and worked with many other international agencies including the IMF, OECD, and UNDP. She has been a member of the OECD Advisory Panel on Budgeting and Public Expenditures.
Prof Wong has been writing about China’s public finance for more than three decades, publishing widely on intergovernmental fiscal relations and their implications for governance, economic development and social welfare.
Tel: (65) 6516 8334
E-mail: christine.wong@nus.edu.sg
Principal Research Fellow
Dr LAM Peng Er （蓝平兒）
Principal Research Fellow
Education Background
PhD (Political Science), Columbia University, 1994
Inter-University Centre for Japanese Studies (Yokohama) administered by Stanford University, 1991
MA (International Relations), Australian National University, 1986
Bachelor of Social Science (1st Class Hons), National University of Singapore, 1984
Research Interests
Japan’s peace-building diplomacy
Sino-Japanese relations
Japan-Southeast Asia relations
Japanese domestic politics
Dr. Lam Peng Er obtained his PhD from Columbia University and is a political scientist. His publications have appeared in international journals such as the Pacific Affairs, Asian Survey, Asian Affairs, Japan Forum and Government and Opposition: An International Journal of Comparative Politics. Lam’s latest single-authored book is Japan’s Peace Building Diplomacy in Asia: Searching for an Active Political Role (New York and London: Routledge, 2009). Other books include: Japan’s Relations with Southeast Asia: The Fukuda Doctrine and Beyond (London and New York: Routledge, 2013) edited, Japan’s Relations with China: Facing a Rising Power (New York and London: Routledge, 2006) edited and Green Politics in Japan (London: Routledge, 1999). He is an executive editor of the International Relations of the Asia-Pacific (A Journal of the Japan Association of International Relations published by Oxford University Press) and Asian Journal of Peacebuilding (Journal of the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies, Seoul National University).
Tel: (65) 6516 3717
E-mail: eailampe@nus.edu.sg
Senior Research Fellows and Visiting/Adjunct Senior Research Fellows
Mr Jason BEDFORD（诸葛森）
Visiting Senior Research Fellow
E-mail: jason.bedford@nus.edu.sg
Dr CHAN Siaw Fume Sarah （陈晓芬）
Senior Research Fellow
Education Background
PhD (Economics), Nanyang Technological University, 2014
Master of Social Science (Applied Economics), National University of Singapore, 2001
Bachelor of Arts, National University of Singapore, 1996
Research Interests
International Economics
Macroeconomics Development Economics
China and ASEAN+3 Economies (fiscal, monetary, external sector, exchange rate policies, etc)
Tel: (65) 6516 4337
E-mail: eaicsfs@nus.edu.sg
Dr CHEN Bo (陈波）
Senior Research Fellow
Education Background
PhD (Economics), Simon Fraser University
MA (Economics), York University
MA (Financial Economics), Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Research Interests
International economics, development economics, China’s economy
Dr Chen Bo (PhD, Simon Fraser University) is Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute of the National University of Singapore. Additionally, he is a Research Associate at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and a Distinguished Fellow at the Jack Austin Center.
Dr Chen’s research interests lie in international economics, development economics, and China’s economy. He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed papers in renowned economic journals such as the Journal of International Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Economics Letters, and the World Economy.
Dr Chen also provides insights on a wide range of China’s economic issues, including Political Free Trade Zones/Ports of China, the Belt & Road Initiative, and Macroeconomic Dynamics. He has been invited to give talks at the Ministry of Treasury and the Ministry of Commerce of China, as well as the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council. His opinions have appeared in various mainstream media outlets such as China Central Television, Xinhua Media, Lianhe Zaobao, BBC, The Economist, and the Wall Street Journal. In addition to advising the central/federal governments of China, Canada, and New Zealand, Dr Chen has also provided consultations to many leading business groups and think tanks, including the Goldman Sachs Group, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Deutsche Bank, BAML, Citi Bank, BMW, Huawei, the Asian Society, the Rhodium Group, and CEPII.
E-mail: bochen@nus.edu.sg
Dr LI Yao （李 耀）
Senior Research Fellow
Education Background
PhD (Economics), University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2008
MA (Economics), Huazhong University of Science and Techonology, 2003
BA (Economics), Huazhong University of Science and Techonology, 2000
Research Interests
International Trade and Investment, Regional Development, Environment Economics
Dr LI Yao received her PhD in Economics from the University of Hawaii, where she was also a degree fellow of the East-West Center. She has published papers in World Economy, Review of Development Economics, Energy Policy, Journal of Asian Economics, Singapore Economic Review etc. Her ongoing research focuses on East Asian economies’ FDI and international trade as well as the region’s inequality and pollution issues from the perspective of the New Economic Geography and Social Network.
Tel: (65) 6516 6659
E-mail: eailyao@nus.edu.sg
Dr LIM Tai Wei（林大伟）
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
Education Background
PhD (Modern Chinese History), Cornell University, 2007
MA (Japanese Studies, IT Political Economy of Japan), National University of Singapore, 2001
BA (1st Class Hons) (Japanese Studies), National University of Singapore, 1999
Dr Lim Tai Wei is Adjunct Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute (EAI) National University of Singapore (NUS). His teaching interests include East Asian History, World History and Japanese popular culture-related courses. His research interests include energy and environmental histories of contemporary Japan and China. He is an area study specialist (on contemporary China and Japan) and a historian by training.
Tel: (65) 6516 4357
E-mail: eailimt@nus.edu.sg
Dr QIAN Jiwei（钱继伟）
Senior Research Fellow
Education Background
PhD in Economics, National University of Singapore, 2010
M.Sc. in Development Economics, University of London, 2003
B.S. in Computer Science, Fudan University, 1998
Research Interests
Chinese Health System, Health Economics, Political Economy, Development Economics
Dr QIAN Jiwei is Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. He is also a co-editor of the book series Social Policy and Development Studies in East Asia (Palgrave Macmillan). His research has been published in publications such as Australian Economic History Review, China Quarterly, Cities, Health Economics, Policy and Law, Health Policy and Planning, International Social Security Review, Journal of Aging & Social Policy, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of Social Policy, Land Use Policy, Policy & Society, Public Administration and Development, Public Choice, Social Policy & Administration and Social Science & Medicine. He is on the editorial board of China: An International Journal, East Asian Policy and Journal of Chinese Economy. He is also the co-editor of Innovation and China’s Global Emergence (with Erik Baark and Bert Hofman, NUS press, 2021). His most recent book is The Political Economy of Making and Implementing Social Policy in China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). His current research interests include digital economy, political economy, social policy and development economics. More information can be found on the website: https://qianjiwei.wordpress.com/.
Tel: (65) 6516 4178
E-mail: eaiqj@nus.edu.sg
Dr. QI Dongtao （祁冬涛）
Senior Research Fellow
Education Background
PhD (Sociology), Stanford University, 2009
MA (Sociology), Stanford University, 2003
MA (Sociology), Peking University, 2002
BA (Info Science & Business Mgt), Nankai University, 1995
Research Interests
Political Sociology, Social Movements and Contentious Politics, Taiwanese Nationalism, Cross-Strait Relations
QI Dongtao is Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. He obtained his PhD in Sociology from Stanford University and conducts research mostly in the field of political sociology, especially on the topics such as state-society relations and nationalism in Taiwan and mainland China, and US-China-Taiwan relations. His publications appear in China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, Issues & Studies, China: An International Journal, International Journal of China Studies, East Asian Policy and so on. He published a book The Taiwan Independence Movement in and out of Power (World Scientific Publishing, 2016), some book chapters on Chinese working class and trade unions, Chinese think tanks, Taiwan’s politics, social movements and social welfare system, and co-edited three books on China’s social policies and social transformation. He has also published over 50 Chinese and English commentaries on the issues involving Taiwan, China, the US, Hong Kong, and the South China Sea in Lianhe Zaobao, Straits Times, and some online journals and media, such as Taiwan Insight, Channel News Asia and ThinkChina. He is finishing a book manuscript tentatively titled Taiwan and the Cross-Strait Relations amid Great Power Competition, which uses three analytical frameworks to explore the new development and challenges in Taiwan’s politics, China’s Taiwan policies and cross-Strait relations since 2016, respectively. Sponsored by the China-US Scholars Program, he was a Visiting Scholar at the 21st Century China Center, University of California, San Diego from September 2021 to May 2022.
Tel: (65) 6516 3522
E-mail: eaiqd@nus.edu.sg
Dr SHAN Wei（单 伟）
Senior Research Fellow
Education Background
PhD (Political Science), Texas A & M University, 2007
MA (International Politics), Peking University, 2000
BA (International Politics), Peking University, 1997
Research Interests
Citizen-Elite Relations
Political Attitudes and Behaviour
Political Development
Shan Wei received his BA and MA in International Studies from Peking University and PhD in Political Science from Texas A&M University. His research focuses on the political behaviour of citizens and elite in the context of political and economic development. Topics he has covered include Chinese citizens’ political participation, changes in political culture, mass-elite relations, political leadership, and factional politics within elite group. He is the co-editor of a book and the author of several journal articles and book chapters.
Tel: (65) 6516 4176
E-mail: eaisw@nus.edu.sg
Dr Victor TEO （张维良）
Visiting Senior Research Fellow
Education Background
PhD/MSc (International Relations, London School of Economics & Political Science
BA. Soc.Sc (Hons), National University of Singapore
Research Interests
International and Asian Security
Foreign Policy of China, Japan and the Koreas
The United States and Russia in Asia
Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan Affairs
Victor Teo is a lawyer and political scientist whose main research expertise is in the International Relations of the Indo-Pacific. He also has interests in the politics of technology, environment and development as well as the illicit political economy in Asia.
E-mail: victorteo@nus.edu.sg
Dr TONG Yueting, Sarah（仝月婷）
Senior Research Fellow
Education Background
PhD, University of California, San Diego, 2000
Research Interests
International Trade
Economic Growth and Development
Chinese Economy
Economic Transition
Asian Economies
Dr Sarah Y Tong is Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute. She obtained her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at San Diego and held an academic position in the University of Hong Kong before joining NUS. Her research interests include international trade, foreign direct investment, economic reforms and industrial restructuring. Her publications have appeared in international journals such as the China: An International Journal, China and the World Economy, China Economic Review, Global Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, and Review of Development Economics. She co-edited a book titled China and Global Economic Crisis, published by World Scientific in early 2010. She is editor for Trade, Investment and Economic Integration (Volume 2 of Globalization, Development, and Security in Asia) to be published by World Scientific (www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/8977).
Tel: (65) 6516 3718
E-mail: eaityt@nus.edu.sg
Dr YU Hong （余 虹）
Senior Research Fellow
Education Background
PhD (Political Economy of China), University of Sheffield, the United Kingdom, 2008
MSc (Political Economy of East Asia), University of Sheffield, the United Kingdom, 2005
MSc (International Business Management), Manchester Metropolitan University, the United Kingdom, 2004
Bachelor in Finance, Guangdong University of Finance & Economics, China, 2003
Research Interests
Regional Economic Development in China
China’s Urbanization The “One Belt, One Road” Initiative
Asian Infrastructure
Investment Bank
China’s State-Owned Enterprises Reform
Railway Sector Reform in China
Dr YU Hong is a Senior Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. His research interests cover regional economic development in China, urbanization, the “One Belt, One Road” initiatives, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, China’s state-owned enterprises and railway sector reform. Dr Yu’s research articles have appeared in international peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Contemporary China; Asian Survey; China: An International Journal; Asia Policy; East Asia: An International Quarterly; The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies and Asian Politics & Policy. He is the single author of the monograph Economic Development and Inequality in China: the Case of Guangdong (Routledge, London and New York: 2011). He co-edited the book China’s Industrial Development in the 21st Century (World Scientific, Singapore: 2011). Dr Yu is the author of the book Chinese Regions in Change: Industrial Upgrading and Regional Development Strategies (Routledge, London and New York: 2015). His most recent book in Chinese is Belt & Road Initiative, The Rise of China and International Cooperation: What Does it Mean to China and the Region? (World Affairs Press, Beijing: 2017). He is also the author of many book chapters. Dr Yu serves as the reviewer for a number of international journals on Asian and industrial studies, including the Journal of Contemporary China, The Pacific Review, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Energy Policy, China: An International Journal, East Asia: An International Quarterly, East Asian Policy, China Perspectives and Journal of Infrastructure, Policy and Development. He is frequently interviewed as an expert on China by international and local media such as Phoenix Television and The Business Times on a range of topics.
Tel: (65) 6516 7810
E-mail: eaiyuh@nus.edu.sg
Dr ZHAO Litao（赵力涛）
Senior Research Fellow
Education Background
PhD (Sociology), Stanford University, 2004
M.A. (Sociology), Peking University, 1998
B.A. (Sociology), Peking University, 1995
Research Interests
Social stratification, sociology of education, organizational analysis, China’s social policy.
Dr Zhao Litao obtained his PhD in Sociology from Stanford University. His research covers China’s social transformation, governance, and policy. He has published in China Quarterly, Research in Social Stratification and mobility, International Journal of Educational Development, Built Environment, Social Sciences in China, Issues and Studies, China: An International Journal, China Information, Frontiers of Education in China, Journal of Social Policy, and East Asian Policy. His research has also appeared in Chinese journals, such as Social Sciences in China (《中国社会科学》), Sociological Studies (《社会学研究》), and Twenty-First Century (《二十一世纪》). He authored Paths to Private Entrepreneurship: Markets and Mobility in Rural China (VDM Verlag, 2008), and co-authored Singapore’s Experience in Social Development (in Chinese) (World Scientific, 2009), and Singapore’s Social Development in Transition (in Chinese) (World Scientific, 2013). His edited volumes include China’s Reforms at 30 (World Scientific, 2009) and China’s New Social Policy (World Scientific, 2010), and China’s Social Development and Policy (Routledge, 2013). He has provided consultancy for Singapore Ministry of Education on syllabus development of China Studies in Chinese. He has been invited to give lectures/seminars/presentations by Ministry of National Development, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Diplomatic Academy, Civil Service College, Centre for Liveable Cities, Singapore Centre for Chinese Language, Academy of Singapore Teachers, NUS Business School, NUS LKY School of Public Policy, EU-Asia Dialogue, ASEAN-China People-to-people Friendship Organizations, Higher Education Leadership Asia Summit, Shell Scenario Planning Workshop, and so on in Singapore, and at the World Forum on China Studies, Moganshan Forum, Southwest Forum, Development Research Center of the State Council, Peking University, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Tongji University, South China University of Technology, Shanghai Party School, and so on in China. He is or was on the editorial board of China: An International Journal, East Asian Policy and Journal of Technology Management in China. He has been a reviewer for numerous journals and publishers, including American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, European Sociological Review, Social Indicators Research, China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, Social Sciences in China, Journal of Chinese Sociology, Policy and Society, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Asian Journal of Social Sciences, Asia Europe Journal, Journal of Asian and African Studies, International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, YOUNG, Asian Women, Issues and Studies, Mainland China Studies, Oxford Bibliographies, Routledge, World Scientific, and so on.
Tel: (65) 6516 3711
E-mail: eaizlt@nus.edu.sg
Research Fellows
Dr GUO Fang （郭芳）
Research Fellow
Education Background
PhD (Economics), Yokohama National University, Japan, 2014
Master (International Economics), East China Normal University, China, 2010
Bachelor (Applied Physics), Inner Mongolia University, China, 2007
Research Interests
Macroeconomics; Economic Policy
Dr GUO Fang is a Research Fellow of the East Asian Institute at NUS. Her research interests focus on China and regional economic ties, as well as Japan’s economy. Before joining NUS, she was a Country Economist for the World Bank–East Africa, covering South Sudan, Eritrea, and Sudan. Prior to that, she served as a Country Economist for the World Bank–East Asia, covering Laos and Myanmar. In her role as a Country Economist, she led and published a series of economic updates and policy notes, working closely with key government counterparts, development partners, and the private sector in these countries. Before taking on the role of Country Economist, she was an Economist for the World Bank–Debt Global Practice, focusing on debt sustainability analysis.
Tel: (65) 6516 4173
E-mail: fangguo@nus.edu.sg
Dr KONG Tuan Yuen （康端严）
Research Fellow
Education Background
PhD in Industrial Economics, National Central University, Taiwan, 2009
Master of Political Economy, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, 2003
Bachelor of Political Science, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 2001
Research Interests
China’s Industrial Development
China-ASEAN Economic Relations
Regional Economic Integration
Dr Kong Tuan Yuen is research fellow at the East Asian Institute (EAI), National University of Singapore. He received his PhD in industrial economics from the National Central University, Taiwan. Tuan Yuen had taken part in many economic research projects on Taiwan at the Research Centre for Taiwan Economic Development. His current research interests include China’s industrial development and China-ASEAN economic relations. Some of his works had been published in China: An International Journal, Review of Global Politics, Applied Econometrics and International Development and Journal of Overseas Chinese and Southeast Asian Studies. His co-edited books include Studying Hong Kong: 20 Years of Political, Economic and Social Developments (2018) and China and Asia Economic Integration (2020). He is also a frequent contributor for Singapore’s local media.
Tel: (65) 6516 4180
E-mail: eaikty@nus.edu.sg
Dr PAN Chaohong （潘超虹）
Research Fellow
Education Background
PhD in Political Science, University of California Merced, 2023
Master in Political Science, Stony Brook University, 2017
Bachelor in International Politics, Sun Yat-Sen University, 2016
Research Interests
Public Opinion, Public Diplomacy, Political Psychology, Social Media
Dr Pan Chaohong is a Research Fellow at the East Asian Institute (EAI) of the National University of Singapore. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Merced. Her research focuses on the dynamics between public opinion, national images shaping, and international relations, particularly in relation to the US and China. She employs methods such as analyzing public opinion data, survey experiments, and social media analytics. In addition to her focus on the US and China, Dr Pan also conduct public opinion research in other regions, including Taiwan and Japan.
E-mail: cpan9@nus.edu.sg
Dr YAO Jielu（姚洁璐）
Research Fellow
Education Background
PhD in Political Science, University of Iowa, U.S., 2020
Master of Economics, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2010
Bachelor of Economics, Fudan University, China, 2006
Research Interests
Political economy, Policy diffusion, Political communication, Computational social science
YAO Jielu is Research Fellow at EAI. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Iowa, an MA in Economics from NUS, and a BA in International Economics and Trade from Fudan University. Before joining EAI, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Wesleyan Media Project at Wesleyan University.
Dr Yao’s research on public policy have focused on policy diffusion and policy feedback, while her work on political communication employs quantitative, automated, and machine-learning/deep-learning methods to analyze non-traditional data such as text and images. Her current projects examine the gap between political rhetoric and policy practice in China, with particular attention to industrial policy and common prosperity policy at the subnational level.
Her research has appeared in various academic journals, including Journal of Public Policy, Journal of Asian Public Policy, Computational Communication Research, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Scientific Data, Forum, and among others. She also serves as Assistant Editor of East Asian Policy.
E-mail: yaojielu@nus.edu.sg
Dr ZHOU Na （周 娜）
Research Fellow
Education Background
PhD (Public Administration), City University of Hong Kong, 2012
MA (Public Administration), Central University of Finance and Economics, 2007
BA (Public Utilities Management), Central University of Finance and Economics, 2005
Research Interests
Corruption and Governance, China’s Political Elites and Cadre Management, Public Finance and Land Management, Regional Economic and Social Development
ZHOU Na is Research Fellow at East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. She attained her PhD in public administration from City University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include corruption and governance in the public sector, with a particular interest in China’s corruption issue. She also studies China’s public finance management, political elites and cadre management, land use and reforms, and regional development. Her articles appear in Regulation and Governance, China: An International Journal, East Asian Policy, Journal of Public Administration (in Chinese) and Public Administration and Policy Review (in Chinese) among other outlets.
Tel: (65) 6516 5063
E-mail: eaizna@nus.edu.sg
Senior Research Officer and Research Assistants
Ms Jessica LOON Mann Ha （伦幔霞）
Senior Research Officer (Editorial)
Education Background
BA, National University of Singapore, 1981
Ms Jessica Loon is Senior Research Officer (Editorial) at the EAI. She has a B.A. from the National University of Singapore and holds a Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management from the Singapore Institute of Management.
Tel: (65) 6516 3904
E-mail: eailmh@nus.edu.sg
Ms CHUA Jing Yee（蔡靓嬟）
Research Assistant
Education Background
B.Soc.Sci. (Hons) in Economics, 2020
Research Interests
Development Economics
International Economics
Population change and societal dynamics
Chua Jing Yee is a Research Assistant of East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. Her current research interest includes international trade within East Asia and ASEAN region as well as population changes and its impact on societal dynamics and economic structuring.
Tel: (65) 6516 8336
E-mail: jy.chua@nus.edu.sg
Ms HO Wei Ling（何玮琳）
Research Assistant (Editorial)
Education Background
MA (Mass Communications), Oklahoma City University, 2000
B Eng. (Civil & Structural), National University of Singapore, 1991
Research Interests
Economic, Political, Environmental Social and Cultural Issue of the World
Science & Technology
Ms Ho Wei Ling graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil & Structural) in 1991 and received her Master of Arts in mass communications from the Oklahoma City University in 2000.
Tel: (65) 6516 1646
E-mail: eaihwl@nus.edu.sg
Mr QIU Xiangyu（邱翔宇）
Research Assistant
Education Background
Master of Science, National University of Singapore, 2022
Bachelor of Finance, Bachelor of Electronic Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 2020
Research Interests
Corporate Finance
Capital Markets
Entrepreneurial finance
Mr Qiu Xiangyu is research assistant at the East Asian Institute (EAI), National University of Singapore. He received his master’s degree in Venture Creation at the National University of Singapore. Xiangyu has been actively involved in various academic research projects, collaborating with renowned professors and contributing to the field of finance. His research experience spans multiple projects, including analyzing global credit cycles, corporate debt, and the effects of financial regulations on market behavior. Xiangyu’s technical skills include proficiency in Stata, Python, R, and other analytical tools, which he has effectively utilized in his research endeavors.
E-mail: qiu.xy@nus.edu.sg
Mr TAN Chia How（陈家豪）
Research Associate
Education Background
Master’s in Public Administration, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, 2023
Bachelors of Business Management, Finance, Singapore Management University, 2016
Research Interests
China-ASEAN economic relations and trade development
Developments in cross-border production networks
Economic integration in East Asia
Chia How is a research associate at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. His research focuses on trade and investment dynamics in East and Southeast Asia, with a particular emphasis on how global value chains are realigning in response to geopolitical uncertainties and pressures. His previous work has explored the hedging strategies employed by multinational corporations (MNCs) to navigate geopolitical risks, including the strengthening of technical cooperation between EU and Chinese automakers. Currently, he is working on a project that examines global reshoring trends and evaluates the likelihood of manufacturing returning, especially in advanced manufacturing sectors.
E-mail: tch.eai@nus.edu.sg
Senior Fellows
Prof Paul EVANS
Senior Fellow
Prof Evans is Professor Emeritus at the University of British Columbia where before his retirement in 2023 he directed the Institute of Asian Research and held the HSBC Chair in Asian Research at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs.
He earlier taught at York University in Toronto and directed the University of Toronto-York University Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies. Between 2005 and 2008 he served as Co-CEO of the Asia Pacific Foundations of Canada.
His major books include a biography of John Fairbank, a lexicon of Asia Pacific security terminology, and a history Canadian China policy from 1970 to 2015. He has published and spoken extensively on Canadian and US interactions with Asia and regional security matters. He has had visiting appointments at a dozen different universities and research institutes in Asia and North America, most recently as the Pok Rafeah Chair at the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (2022-23).
Active in multiple track-two dialogue activities focused on cooperative and human security, he was a co-founder of CSCAP and currently is a Canadian representative on the ASEAN Regional Forum’s Experts and Eminent Persons Group. As a Senior Fellow at the EAI, he will make a series of visits to the Institute over the next twelve months to work on the changing structure of multilateral institutions in Asia Pacific and the contemporary legacy of John Fairbank.
E-mail: paul.evans@ubc.ca
Mr Rick WATERS
Senior Fellow
Mr Rick Waters is the director of Carnegie China, an East Asia-based research center focused on China’s regional and global role, and the Maurice R. Greenberg Director’s Chair.
Mr Waters joined Carnegie after a 27-year career culminating as the U.S. State Department’s top China policy official, overseeing the creation of the Office of China Coordination, informally known as the China House, and concurrently serving as deputy assistant secretary of state for China and Taiwan. He also held multiple roles at the U.S. embassy in Beijing—including during the period between the accidental U.S. bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade (1999) and the Hainan Island incident (2001). After retiring from government service, Mr Waters served as managing director for Northeast Asia at the Eurasia Group, a global geopolitical risk practice, and as a nonresident fellow at the Asia Society’s Center for China Analysis.
Fluent in Mandarin and Spanish, Mr Waters also speaks (rusty) Arabic and worked for more than a decade on Middle East issues, including as director for Israel, Palestine, Egypt, and Jordan at the National Security Council under George W. Bush and as political counselor in Jerusalem and Islamabad. Mr. Waters holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from the Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service.
E-mail: rick.waters@ceip.org
Non-Resident Fellows
Dr Alicia GARCÍA-HERRERO
Non-Resident Senior Fellow
Dr Alicia García Herrero is Adjunct Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science. Dr García Herrero also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Brussels-based European think-tank BRUEGEL and as Chief Economist for Asia Pacific at French investment bank NATIXIS. She is also a non-resident Senior Follow at the Institute of Chinese Studies in Delhi and non-Executive Board member of listed-insurance group, AGEAS. Finally, Alicia is a Member of the Council of Advisors on Economic Affairs to the Spanish Government and an advisor to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s research arm (HKIMR).
Dr García Herrero holds a PhD in Economics from George Washington University and has published extensively in refereed journals and books. She is also very active in international media.
E-mail: alicia.garciaherrero@natixis.com
Dr GUO Kai
Non-Resident Senior Fellow
Dr Guo Kai is Executive President and Senior Fellow of CF40 Institute. Before joining CF40Institute, Dr Guo was an economist at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC and then worked at the People’s Bank of China in various capacities, including in the Monetary Policy Department and the International Department. His main research areas include the Chinese economy and its macroeconomic policies as well as international finance. Dr Guo is the author of three popular Chinese economics books and multiple academic papers in various English and Chinese journals. Dr Guo holds a Ph.D. degree in economics from Harvard University.
Dr Kenneth KANG
Non-Resident Senior Fellow
Dr Kenneth Kang is a Deputy Director in the Strategy, Policy and Review Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), covering issues related to global surveillance, trade policy, exchange rates, capital flows, macrofinancial policies, and digitalization. Previously he worked in the Asia and Pacific and the European Departments, overseeing China, the Euro Area, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Thailand, and the Netherlands, and was the IMF Resident Representative in Korea during 2003-06. Dr. Kang holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
