 | Professor Brian Wong, HKU-100 Assistant Professor and Director of the Global AI Governance Hub, University of Hong Kong Dr. Brian Wong is a HKU-100 Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. His research examines the ethics and dynamics of authoritarian regimes and their foreign policies, historical and colonial injustices, and the intersection of geopolitics, political and moral philosophy, and artificial intelligence. At HKU, he serves as a Fellow at the Centre on Contemporary China and the World, the Director of the newly established Hong Kong Global AI Governance Hub, and sits on the Steering Committee for the Hong Kong Ethics Lab. Brian is a political theorist and geopolitical strategist whose research examines authoritarian regimes and citizens' normative responsibilities, colonial and historical injustices, and the interaction between domestic politics and foreign policy of states in East Asia, especially China. He has taught modules in politics to undergraduate students at Oxford and Stanford Universities, and has delivered keynote speeches across the campuses of universities such as LSE, Harvard-Science Po, Carnegie-Tsinghua, Tsinghua, and Tufts. He co-founded and advises Oxford Political Review, a publication aspiring to bridge the theory-practice gap. As the Chief Strategy Officer of the HK-ASEAN Foundation, he advises multi-national corporations, family offices, and leading think-tanks on geopolitical affairs and macro risks throughout Asia. Having co-founded and served as the inaugural Editor-in-Chief at the Oxford Political Review, a publication aspiring to bridge the theory-practice gap, Brian serves as a columnist at the Hong Kong Economic Journal. His writings on Chinese political economy, Asian geopolitics, and public philosophy have been featured in publications such as TIME, Foreign Policy, Aeon, Financial Times, Diplomat, Fortune, The Hindu, South China Morning Post, Nikkei, Japan Times, and the US-Asia Law Institute. Brian is a Hong Kong Rhodes Scholar (2020). He obtained his DPhil in Politics at Balliol College, Oxford University. He holds an MPhil in Political Theory (Distinction) from Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and an MA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (First Class) from Pembroke College, University of Oxford, with the latter being funded in full by a Kwok Scholarship. |