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Lynette Ong

Professor

Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Political Science

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    Faculty of Arts and Science, Department of Political Science
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BIO

Lynette H. Ong is Professor of Political Science, jointly appointed at the department and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. She is an expert on China, having conducted on-the-ground research in the country since the late 1990s. In addition, she has also published on the broader Indo-Pacific region, including Southeast Asia and India. Her research interests lie at the intersection of authoritarianism, contentious politics, and development. She has delivered expert testimonies before the US Congress and the Canadian House of Common. She frequently offers expert commentaries to international and Canadian media.

She has been invited to deliver expert testimony before the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission in Washington DC and Canada’s House of Commons Special Committee on Canada-China Relations. Her research has been featured in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Economist, CNN, BBC, among others.

She received her PhD from the Australian National University. She had been awarded An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowship by Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, and have held visiting fellowship at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, and numerous prestigious universities across Asia. Her research has been funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Connaught, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, and Association of Asian Studies.

She has been appointed a faculty fellow at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society. She has held the position of director of Munk School China Initiative, acting director of the Contemporary Asian Studies Program, and director of East Asia Seminar Series at the Asian Institute for many years.

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• Authoritarian politics
• Canada-China relations
• Human rights in China
• Politics and political economy in China
• Politics in Singapore and Malaysia
• Protest and state repression in China
• Urbanization in China

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Professor
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada1 Jul 2022 - present
  • Associate Professor
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada2012 - 30 Jun 2022
  • Assistant Professor
    University of Toronto, Toronto, CanadaJul 2007 - Jul 2012
  • Director, China Initiatives
    University of Toronto, Munk School of Global Affairs, Toronto, Canada1 Jun 2016 - 30 Jun 2019
  • Acting Director
    University of Toronto, Munk School of Global Affairs, Toronto, CanadaJul 2016 - Jun 2017

DEGREES

  • PhD, Political Science
    Australian National University, Canberra, Australia2003 - 2007

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • Postdoctoral Fellow
    Harvard University, Cambridge, United States2008 - 2009
    Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • Visiting Fellow
    Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, United States1 Jan 2020 - 1 Aug 2020

LANGUAGES

  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Chinese (Mandarin)
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review

AVAILABILITY

  • Media enquiries

INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

  • Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (SRI)

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