I am a PhD researcher in International Relations at the Australian National University.

I am currently completing my PhD in International, Political, and Strategic Studies at the Australian National University (ANU), fully funded by university scholarships. My project examines the construction of China’s financial policy interests. It traces how Chinese party-state leaders, intellectuals, and media have expressed their understandings of economic structures in debates shaped by financial crises spanning the late-1980s inflation, the Asian Financial Crisis, the Global Financial Crisis, and the 2015 stock market crash. In the process, it highlights the ways in which Chinese policymakers have sought to use markets as tools to serve the party-state’s evolving political objectives. This project is supervised by Prof. Wesley W. Widmaier, A/Prof. Amy King, and Prof. Susan Sell.

I have published widely, and have ongoing publications, on China’s foreign economic policy, China–US relations, development finance, the international economic order, and international relations theory.

Driven by my passion for education, I have been actively involved in extensive tutoring and teaching across a wide range of courses. I have served as a head tutor or tutor for 12 undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the Australian National University, taking responsibility for tutorials, marking, and occasionally guest lecturing and administrative support. I have also contributed as an assessor and guest lecturer to professional development programs tailored for policymakers, including programs for the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Department of Defence, and the Australian Defence Force.