David Zweig is Chair Professor, Division of Social Science, and Director, Center on China’s Transnational Relations (www.cctr.ust.hk<http://www.cctr.ust.hk/), HKUST. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada; Vice President of the Center on China’s Globalization (CCG) in Beijing; Vice-Dean of the South China Center on China’s Globalization, Guangzhou, and Adjunct Professor, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China. Previously he was a Non-Resident Fellow for China, Pacific Council on International Policy, Los Angeles, CA. He teaches Chinese Politics and Business in HKUST’s EMBA program and the MBA program at the HKUST’s School of Business Management. He is one of the world’s leading specialists on China’s reverse migration of human talent in China, and has worked closely with China’s Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security in China. He, himself, was an overseas student in China in 1974-76. In June 2012, he presented his views on China’s strategy on reverse migration to Li Yuanchao, then head of the Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party (now Vice-President). He also specializes in China’s search for resources and his 2005 article, “China’s Global Search for Oil,” was the most downloaded article in Foreign Affairs in 2005. His new book, called “US-China Energy Triangles: Resource diplomacy under hegemony,” will be out from Routledge in July.
