Lai-Ha Chan (Ph.D. in International and Asian Studies, Griffith University, Australia) is a Senior Lecturer in the Social and Political Sciences Program, School of Communication, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 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, United States.
Her research interests include global health governance, military intervention and development aid. Her current research centres on China’s economic statecraft and infrastructure investment and their impact on regional order; and on Australia’s hedging policy in the Indo-Pacific.