Lai-Ha Chan is a Senior Lecturer in the Social and Political Sciences Program, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and a Research Associate at the Australia–China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She was a Fung Global Fellow (2016–2017) at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University, New Jersey. Her research on China’s role in global and regional politics is widely recognised, resulting in two award-winning journal articles, two monographs, two edited volumes, 16 peer-reviewed journal articles and 15 book chapters.
Her recent publications include the co-edited volume China-US Great-Power Rivalry: The Competitive Dynamics of Order-Building in the Indo-Pacific (Routledge, 2024), a journal article shortlisted for the 2024 Boyer Prize: 'Quad 2.0 in flux, how possible? A study of India’s changing ‘significant other’', Australian Journal of International Affairs, 77 (5), 2023: 483–508; and another journal article: 'The Promise of AUKUS: Implications of its minilateral institutional form', Australian Journal of International Affairs, online publishing: 15 November 2024.
Her current research centers on global governance and minilateralism. She is currently working on how states, particularly China and the United States, and non-state actors shape the norms and rules governing deep-sea mining beyond national jurisdiction; and the ascendancy and effectiveness of minilateral groupings in the Indo-Pacific. More information about her research profiles can be seen below: