Gregory Chin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Faculty of Graduate Studies at York University (Canada), where he teaches global politics, comparative politics, and East Asian political economy.

Dr. Chin is also a Senior Fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), and a member of the Global Governance Research Group organized by Chatham House, CIGI and the Instituto Affari Internazionali. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Rowman & Littlefield’s New Millennium International Books Series, an academic member of the Editorial Board of the China and International Organization Books Series, jointly published by Shanghai People's Press and Shanghai International Studies University, and on the Advisory Board of the North Korea Research Group at the University of Toronto. He has reviewed manuscript submissions for Global Governance, International Journal, New Political Economy, Pacific Affairs, Pacific Review and Review of International Political Economy. Dr. Chin has held a visiting fellowship at Peking University (1997-1998).

Prior to joining York University in 2006, Dr. Chin served as a diplomat in the Canadian Embassy in Beijing, responsible for Canadian foreign aid to China and North Korea. From 2000 to 2003, he served in the Canadian International Development Agency and Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. He has been a consultant to the International Development Research Centre and the Canadian International Development Agency.

His research interests include China's outward global economic expansion, the emerging powers and global governance reform, Asian regionalism, and Chinese foreign policy. He is a member of the research project on "China's Currency Choices", supported by a SSHRC Standard Research Grant.

Dr. Chin’s forthcoming book is entitled China’s Automotive Modernization: The Party-State and Multinational Corporations (Palgrave Macmillan, International Political Economy Series).

Education: PhD (Political Science), York University, Canada

Languages: English, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese)

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Research Programmes:
BRICs and Beyond: Emerging Powers and World Order

The Political Economy of China's Currency Choices - The Vortex of Domestic, Regional and International Pressures
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Standard Grant. Co-Investigator with Paul Bowles (Principal Investigator, University of Northern British Columbia) and  Baotai Wang (Co-Investigator, University of Northern British Columbia).

Emerging Donors in International Development Assistance: The China Case
Gregory T Chin and B. Michael Frolic
One of five reports for the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) on the role played by emerging economies in funding international development
December 2007.

Research Programmes > Global Governance Research Group
Conference on "The G20-G8 continuum: Global governance in a world of crisis",
hosted by the Instituto Affari Internazionali, Chatham House, CIGI, and the G8
Research Group, 6 July 2009, Rome.

Related Publications:

Chin, Gregory, "Global Finance: China Lets the Cat Out Of the Currency Bag", IND Indepth News.

Chin, Gregory (with Andrew Cooper), "North-South: Rebalancing Global Governance: In the Afterglow of London G20", Global Development, June 2009.

Chin, Gregory. "The emerging powers: The global economic crisis has created a new world order". The Record, Waterloo, 30 April 2009. Reprinted in the Guelph Mercury, 6 May 2009.

Chin, Gregory. "Complex Interests and Multiple Identities: China's Evolving G8 Relations" (Chinese), Guoji guancha (International Review), Spring 2009.

Chin, Gregory and Eric Helleiner. "Calling China's Bluff", Foreign Policy, January 2009.

Chin, Gregory. "China and the End of the G-8", Far Eastern Economic Review, December 2008.

Chin, Gregory and Eric Helleiner. "China as a Creditor: A Rising Financial Power?", Journal of International Affairs (Columbia University), Fall 2008, pp.87-102.

Gregory T. Chin, "China’s G8 Turn: Complex Interests and Multiple Identity in Global Governance Reform" in Andrew F. Cooper and Agata Antkiewicz (eds.), Emerging Powers in Global Governance: Lessons from the Heiligendamm Process (Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2008)

Related Events:
Presented on China's Rising International Financial Power: The Future of the Dollar System? at the Political Science Monday Speaker Series, Department of Political Science, York University, 23 November 2009, Toronto, Canada.

Presented on "The UN and a Rising China: Relevancy, Realignment, Resiliency" at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Academic Council on the United Nations System, 6 June 2009, at the University of the West Indies, Trindad and Tobago.

Presented a paper titled, "China as Rising Power Broker in International Finance: State Policy Banks", at panel on "The Rise of China: International Implications and Challenges" at the annual conference of the Canadian Political Science Association, 29 May 2009, Ottawa, Canada

Presented on "Shifting Purpose: Asia's Economic Rise and Canada's Foreign Aid Response", at the Symposium on Canada-Asia Relations organized by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada in Ottawa on 30 March 2009. The papers presented will be published in a special issue of International Journal.   

Interviewed by CBC, The National, for special coverage of the G20 London on 27 March 2009. Available at: www.cbc.ca/national/blog/video/internationalus/g20_roadmap.html.

Attended the roundtable on "The G8 and G20 Priorities: Clashing Agendas or Creative Tension?", hosted by the International Economics Programme of Chatham House on 15 January 2009 (London, UK).

Interviewedon BBC World News on China's International Influence, 4 November 2008.
Watch BBC interview

Invited to give a presentation at Chatham House, London, England and participate in a roundtable on "Remaking the Global Economic Architecture" on 5 November 2008. The agenda is available here.

Chaired the presentation by Canadian Ambassador to Korea Ted Lipman at
York University on the Koreas, Canada and global issues; an event co-hosted by
York Centre for Asian Research, the Centre for Study of Korea at University of
Toronto, and the York Centre for International and Security Studies on 30 October 2008.

Invited to speak on The Dilemmas of Humanitarian and Development Assistance in North Korea: Foundations for a Coherent Aid Strategy as part of the North Korea Speaker Series, Thursday, 2 October 2008, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. Click here to view a story and photos on the event.

Invited by The Institute of Asian Research (Centre for Chinese Research) at The University of British Columbia to give a presentation on "Party Reform in China: Promoting “Leadership Science” and Management Innovatio", on 22 September 2008.
The presentation discussed how the Chinese Communist Party has responded to pressures of societal change, modernization, and globalization.

Panel discussant at the conference on 'Globalization and its Impact: India and China,' hosted by the University of North British Columbia, Prince George, Canada, on 19-20 September 2008.

Invited to participate and present at the Rising States, Rising Institutions workshop at Princeton University on 25-27 August 2008.

Gregory Chin spoke on China's role in global governance during the "China in Global Governance: Beyond the G8" conference in Shanghai on 12 July 2008.
The event was co-sponsored by the Center for China and International Organization (Shanghai International Studies University) and the G8 Research Group of University of Toronto.

Participated in the "Pre-G8 Summit Conference 2008: Global Challenges, Global Environment, G8 Innovations" in Tokyo on 3 July 2008.
The conference was hosted by the Center for International Public Policy Studies (Japan), The Centre for International Governance Innovation (Canada) and the G8 Research Group of University of Toronto (Canada).

Presented on "China's Communist Party-state and Globalization" at the Workshop on Globalization and the State, The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 19 to 20 May 2008

Presented on "The Role of Emerging Donors in Afghanistan: China and India Compared" at the Atlantic Council of Canada's 2008 Spring Conference, 1 May 2008. Article about the talk in the ACC April-July 2008 Newsletter.
  
"Chinese Official Development Assistance: The Philippines Experience in the North Luzon Railways and National Broadband Network Projects"
Talk by Rommel Gavieta, YCAR Research Associate, 11 April 2008

CIGI Food for Thought Lecture on "China as Foreign Aid Donor: Motivations and Global Leadership Capacity", 25 March 2008

Presentation at the University of the West Indies, "In the Shadow of Great Power-Emerging Power Rivalry: Rising China and the Caribbean Region", 8 February 2008

"China’s Evolving Foreign Aid in Africa: The Case of Tanzania"  
Talk by Maggie Zeng, Gender Equality Advisor in China to the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), 19 September 2007

Media Interviews
Fu Jing, "The price of green revolution", in China Daily, Wednesday, 18 November 2009.

Paul Krugman, "Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman says weak economy could be with us a while", Canadian Press, Sunday, 4 October 2009.

Chris Buckley and Simon Rabinovitch, "China expected to resist Obama's G20 reforms", in Financial Post, Tuesday, September 22, 2009.

Fu Jing, "Experts urge more backing for China on IMF stake", in China Daily, Thursday, 10 September 2009.

Kevin Carmichael and Tara Perkins, "Flaherty turns page with mission to China", Globe and Mail, 10 August 2009.

Simon Rabinovitch, "China speaks with authority in Italy Summit", Reuters, 10 July 2009, and reprinted in Forbes. Also reprinted in China Daily (with adjustments) as "China speaks with authority in Italy Summit", 10 July 2009.

Took part in a hour-long debate on France24 Television on "The G8: Still the Masters of the Universe?", on 8 July 2009, from L'Aquila Italy, via satellite to Paris.

Buckley, Chris. "Much-trumpeted BRIC summit ends quietly". Reuters, 17 June 2009. Available at: http://in.reuters.com/article/topNews/idINIndia-40397420090617?sp=true. Reprinted in Portuguese, available at: http://br.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idBRSPE55G04Z20090617.

Buckley, Chris and Simon Rabinovitch. "China lays road to global role with economic cement". Reuters, 11 June 2009. Available at: http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE55A0U320090611.

Interviewed on North Korea threatening military action against the South and United States on the Cory Kolt radio show at News/Talk 980 CJME in Regina, Saskatchewan, 5:15 EST on 27 May 2009.

Simon Romero and Alexei Barrioneuvo, "Deals help China expand sway in Latin America" in New York Times, 15 April 2009.

Reynolds, Rob. "London: Rising powers" in Focus: Reporter's Log, On the Road with Obama, Al Jazeera, 2 April 2009.

Walkom, Thomas. "Leaders meet in Peru for crisis talks", in Toronto Star, Saturday, 22 November 2008.

Collins, Michelle, "Fingers crossed Tories will learn from Emerson on China", in Embassy, Wednesday, 29 October 2008.

Heine, Jorge, "The dragon in the archipelago", in Jamaica Gleaner, 17 August 2008.

Cooper, Andrew F. and Gregory Chin, "China's kocking on the G8 door", in Far Eastern Economic Review, July 2008.

Collins, Michelle, "Beijing Olympics: To attend or not to attend?", in Embassy, Wednesday, 23 July 2008.

Ng, Tze-wei, "China's voice loud and clear in new 'G5' bloc", in South China Morning Post, Thursday, 10 July 2008, A10.

Ng, Tze-wei, "Neither Beijing nor G8 ready for China to be full member: analysts", in South China Morning Post, Monday, 7 July 2008, A10.

Sanders, Sir Ronald, "Settling the China Question: A Caribbean Challenge", BBC, Monday, 5 May 2008.

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For more information, contact Gregory Chin at gtchin@yorku.ca