Speaker
Jing HUANG
Affliation
National University of Singapore
Title
Professor
Session

Biography

Jing HUANG is a Lee Foundation Professor on US-China Relations and Director of Centre on Asia and Globalization (CAG) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP). As an internationally recognized expert on Chinese politics, China’s foreign relations, and security issues in Asia-Pacific, Huang has written three books, edited 5, and numerous journal articles, book chapters, policy papers, and op-eds on Chinese politics, China’s development strategy, China’s foreign policy, US-China relations, China-India relations, the military, and security issues in the Asia-Pacific. His book, Factionalism in Chinese Communist Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), won the prestigious Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize in 2002. Huang is also a columnist for several English and Chinese newspapers and magazines. Huang is on the Board of Directors of the Fujitsu-JAIMS Foundation Japan, the Board of Directors of Keppel Land, the Advisory Board of the European-House Ambrosetti, the Steering Committee of the NUS Research Institute in Suzhou, and the WEF Global Agenda Council. He is also a Senior Overseas Economic Analyst for China’s Xinhua News Agency. Before joining the LKYSPP, Huang was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution (2004-2008). He also taught at Harvard University (1993-1994), Utah State University (1994-2004) and Stanford University (2002-2003). Huang received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University, MA from Fudan University, and BA from Sichuan University. Huang was a Residential Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in 2012 and is a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy.