Dr. Zhao Hong is currently a professor at the Research School of Southeast Asian Studies, Xiamen University. Prior to this, he was a senior fellow of ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute and senior fellow of the East Asian Institute at National University of Singapore.
His research papers have appeared in Journal of Contemporary China, China: An International Journal, Journal of East Asian Affairs, and Contemporary Southeast Asian Studies, among others. His research mainly looks at the political economies of China, Southeast Asia and South Asia; Asia-Pacific regionalism and economic community.