Gregory T. Chin
Associate Professor
Office: Ross Building, S632
Phone: (416) 736-2100
Email: gtchin@yorku.ca
Gregory Chin is an Associate Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Politics, and Faculty of Graduate Studies at York University (Canada), with a focus on the political economy of international money and development finance, and China, Asia, the BRICS, and global governance. His research started in the early 1990s, and spans four decades. He was the Mayling Birney Global Scholar at The London School of Economics and Political Science from 2022 until 2023, and is an Associate of the LSE IDEAS think tank. He is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow of the Global China Initiative at Boston University's Global Development Policy Center, and of the Foreign Policy Institute at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He served as External Examiner for Hong Kong Education University's Global and Environmental Studies Program from 2018-2022.
His activities are divided into research and teaching, doctoral student supervision, publishing, administrative duties, and project management. His recent publications include the book, China and the Global Economic Order (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Elements, Global China Series, coauthored with Kevin P. Gallagher, forthcoming 2025), and "China's Digital Renminbi (e-CNY) as Financial Inclusion: The Global Frontier of Central Bank Digital Currency" (forthcoming March 2025 in Global Public Policy and Governance journal). Latest commentary: "The New G-ZERO, Why It Matters", posted online by Global Policy journal. Recent presentation, “China's Global Rise: The Renminbi and the Making of an International Currency”, LSE Public Lecture. Recent CBC News Report and CBC News interview on Canada's approach to China. Quoted in The Wire on the Renminbi's role in dealing with US sanctions, Time Magazine on the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, The Economist on the BRICS-led New Development Bank, and The Financial Times on China and global economic governance.
He co-directs the “Emerging Global Governance” (EGG) Project with Dr. Eva-Maria Nag, Executive Editor of the journal Global Policy.
Expert Reviewer and Contributor to the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation "South-South Ideas Paper Series" and the research work of the UNOSSC.
Advisory or editorial board member of the journals Review of International Political Economy, Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, and Journal of East Asian Studies. Co-editor of Review of International Political Economy from 2012-2015.
SSHRC-funded multi-year project on the "Political Economy of China's Currency Choices" (2010-2013). (with Paul Bowles [PI] and Wang Baotai at University of Northern British Columbia)
Projects and research papers on currency internationalization and regional financial cooperation with the Asian Development Bank (Manila), Asian Development Bank Institute (Tokyo), and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKIMR).
Contributed to writing the United Nations Development Programme-China Development Bank Joint Report on Harmonizing Investment and Financing Standards Along the Belt & Road, published November 2019
Wrote the Report for Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) on "China's Evolving Support for Scientific and Development Research in Developing Countries" (June 2019); Report for IDRC on "China's Rise as an Emerging Donor" (2007); and led the "Rising Aid Donors: The BRICS and Beyond" project funded by IDRC (2010-11).
Visiting fellowships at Peking University (1997-1998, Canada-China Exchange Scholarship), University of Cambridge (Darwin College & the Department of Politics and International Studies, April-May 2010), University of Sheffield (Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute, June-July 2014), Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China (at the Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences, June 2016), The London School of Economics and Political Science (October-November 2022), and Boston University (May 2023).
Assessed grant proposals for The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) of the UK, the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, and The Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada.
Reviewed journal article submissions for Asian Survey, Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, The China Quarterly, The China Journal, China Information, China Review, European Journal of International Relations, Global Studies Quarterly, International Affairs, International Journal, International Political Science Review, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, The Journal of Development Studies, Review of International Studies, Studies in Comparative International Development, World Development, World Politics.
Reviewed book manuscripts and book proposals for Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, University of Toronto Press and Yale University Press.
From 2000 to 2006, Chin served in the Government of Canada, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, the Canadian International Development Agency, and the Canadian Embassy in Beijing. Member of the Interdepartmental "China Watchers" Group, chaired by The Privy Council Office, IAS (2001-2003). Received the "Citation of Excellence" from the Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chrétien for work on the 2001 Team Canada Mission to China (Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong). Embassy core team for Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin's official visit to China in January 2005.
Prior to joining York University in 2007, he was First Secretary (Development) at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing 2003-2006. He handled strategic policy engagement with decision-makers in China, government agencies, key Chinese think tanks, and liaised with diplomatic representatives of other countries, the major multilateral development banks and international organizations, and private international foundations and donors.
He designed and managed Canada's large-scale multi-year official development assistance programs and projects in China in the areas of governance reform, economic and social development, infrastructure development, and environmental protection (projects spanning 2001-2011). He maintained the watching brief (2004-06) on Canada's humanitarian assistance to North Korea delivered via the United Nations, specifically the UNDP, WHO, WFP, FAO, and UNICEF.
Degrees
PhD Political Science, York UniversityAppointments
Faculty of Graduate StudiesCommunity Contributions
Recent Keynote Lectures or Invited Presentations
* London School of Economics and Political Science, Moderator for Cheng-Chwee Kuik presentation on "Navigating Middle Power Diplomacy: Southeast Asia and BRICS", Global South Dialogue Series, hosted by LSE IDEAS, Global South Unit, February 12, 2024 (forthcoming)
* The University of Hong Kong, lecture on "Political Economy of Renminbi Internationalization", Department of Politics and Public Administration, December 6, 2024
* University of Toronto, "Jean Chrétien's foreign policy: Canada-China relations", November 19, 2024
* CAF-LSE Annual Conference, "A New Era: Latin America's Turn to Asia", London School of Economics and Political Science, November 2024
* Boston University, "A Decade in the Making: The Evolution of the New Development Bank", Global Development Policy Center, October 4, 2024
* Global Summitry Project, "Interview on the BRICS+ and the New Development Bank", Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, September 22, 2024
* Erasmus (EU) Blended Intensive Program, Invited Online Lecture on "Digital Yuan, from Local to Global?: RMB Internationalization in the Making", co-hosted by University of Turin (Italy), Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO, Paris, France), and University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), March 20, 2024
* University of Toronto, "Canada's Approach to China during the Chrétien Years", Trinity College, November 23, 2023
* The Shanghai Forum, "Digital Yuan and Inclusive Development ", Fudan University, Institute for Global Public Policy, Shanghai, October 29, 2023
* Fudan University, "Studying Renminbi Internationalization: A Dynamic IPE Perspective and Its Main Contributions", School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Shanghai, October 26, 2023
* Boston University, Global Development Policy Center, Global China Initiative visit as Senior Research Fellow, Boston, USA, May 2023
* The China Roundtable, "China's Foreign Policy after the Two Sessions 2023" [invitation only], hosted by Department of Finance Canada and Global Affairs Canada, Ottawa, 20 April 2023
* University of Turin, "US Financial Warfare on China - New Type of Cold War?", TOChina Seminar Program, March 20, 2023
* International Studies Association Committee Panel, "Diversifying Conversations in International Political Economy - Insights from the Global South", Montreal, March 2023
* Carleton University, presentation at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs on "Global Monetary Disorder and China's Renminbi Internationalization", Ottawa, January 13, 2023
* Peking University, Overseas Scholar Lecture on "The International Organization of the Belt and Road Initiative: Nesting in China-led Institution-Building", School of International Studies, November 28, 2022
* The London School of Economics and Political Science, Inaugural Mayling Birney Memorial Lecture: "China's Global Rise -- The Renminbi and the Making of an International Currency", LSE Public Lecture, London, UK, November 15, 2022
* Fudan University, Shanghai and The London School of Economics and Political Science, Research Workshop on "China and the Global South", November 8, 2022
* Carleton University and University of Victoria, "Concluding Remarks" at Conference "Hardtalk: Canada and the Asia Pacific" (timestamp 5:53:22), and iaffairs Interview, Ottawa, October 24, 2022
* University of Victoria, "Renminbi Internationalization: Government and Corporate Drivers and the Impact of COVID-19?", Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, Victoria, British Columbia, October 20, 2022
* Book launch for Canada Among Nations 2021, hosted by Sarwar Kashmeri on PolarisLive, October 3, 2022
* University of British Columbia, presentation on "China's Arrival - Globalization and Global Governance", Department of Political Science, course instructed by the Honourable Sergio Marchi on "Globalization and the Challenges of Global Governance", September 26, 2022
* University of Manitoba, Inaugural Tony T.K. Lau Lecture on Contemporary China, Winnipeg, September 22, 2022
* University of Toronto, presentation of paper, "Canada's Relations with China during the Chrétien Years", Conference on "Chrétien's World: Canadian Foreign Policy, 1993-2003", hosted by The Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, University of Toronto, September 9, 2022
* Dartmouth College, Lecture on "The United States and China in a New World Order", Hanover, New Hampshire, USA, May 16, 2022
* Global Affairs Canada, Excellence Hour, discussion with Canadian Consul General in Hong Kong and Gregory Chin on "Hong Kong's future as an International Financial Center", May 5, 2022
* United States Institute of Peace, Expert discussion on "China and Global Conflict Prevention Norms", USIP, Washington DC, April 25, 2022
* Johns Hopkins University, “Diplomatic Capacity Index Expert Roundtable”, Foreign Policy Institute, School of Advanced International Studies, April 5, 2022
* The Evolution of the New Development Bank e-workshop, for the Emerging Global Governance (EGG) Project, March 23-24, 2022
* Goethe University Frankfurt, "Europe's Unique Role in Renminbi Internationalization", Graduate Program in Modern East Asian Studies, Economic Aspects, Germany, February 8, 2022
* University of Toronto, discussant for the book talk of Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia, by David Lampton, Selina Ho and Cheng-Chwee Kuik, The Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, January 20, 2022
* Interview with Sarwar A. Kashmeri, Host for Polaris-Live: US and China in the World, November 24, 2021
* Kyoto Peace Conference 2021, panel presentation on the "The Unintended Consequences of US Financial Warfare on China and Hong Kong", hosted by International Peace and Sustainability Organization, panel sponsored by Torino World Affairs Institute and IPSO, Kyoto, Japan, October 30, 2021
* Boston University, discussant for Paulo Nogueira Batista Júnior book talk, The BRICS and the Financing Mechanisms They Created, hosted by BU Global Development Policy Center and the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston, USA, October 28, 2021
* Carleton University, "Canada-China Relations amid the U.S.-China Trade War", workshop for Canada Among Nations 2021, The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Ottawa, October 16, 2021
* University of Toronto and Charhar Institute (Beijing), "Canada-China Forum", June 28, 2021
* Università di Torino, "Chinese Development Finance" and "Renminbi Internationalization and the Belt and Road", TOChina Summer School, Italy, June 21, 2021
* Brown University, Workshop on "Economic Warfare: What Can World War One Tell Us About 21st Century Conflicts?", Brown University, William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance, and The US Naval War College, April-May 2021
* Università di Torino, "Summitry and Corporate-Government Relations for the Belt and Road", TOChina Spring Seminar (webinar), Italy, April 7, 2021
* Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Global Studies Program, webinar presentation on "Bridging Western and Chinese Civilizations for Global Governance", March 1, 2021
* Brown University, "Central Banking in China: The PBOC in Comparative and International Perspective", webinar presentation to the Politics of Central Banking Working Group, William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance, January 29, 2021
* Canadian International Council, virtual panel on "Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) in the Asia-Pacific: Challenges and Opportunities for Canada" (with Senator Yuen Pau Woo and Ambassador Bruce Jutzi), CIC National Capital Branch, Ottawa, December 16, 2020
* Digital Yuan and RMB Internationalization Along the Belt and Road", webinar presentation to the South-South and Triangular Cooperation among Maritime-Continental Silk Road Cities for Sustainable Development Project, UNOSSC Cities Project, November 13, 2020 (Beijing time zone)
* Global Affairs Canada, Excellence Hour, discussion with Canadian Ambassador Dominic Barton and Gregory Chin on "A Proposal for a Bold Rethink of Canada's Approach to China", September 4, 2020 (Beijing time zone)
* Center for Global Development (Washington DC), Expert panel member for "AIIB: The Next Five Years", Conversation with Sir Danny Alexander, AIIB Vice President, moderated by Scott Morris, Senior Fellow, CGD, July 9, 2020
* Johns Hopkins University, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Moderator and discussant for webinar presentation by former IMF First Deputy Managing Director, Dr. John Lipsky on "Economic Prospects and Global Policy Collaboration in a Time of the COVID 19 Crisis", April 30, 2020
* ISA Presidential Panel, Sapphire Series, "Institutional Diversity and Regional Orders", and Roundtable on "Diversity in the Global Currency System: Good, Bad or Inevitable?", ISA Annual Conference, Hawaii, USA, March 2020 (cancelled due to COVID 19)
* University of Southern California, "Transnational Lineages of the Developmental State" workshop, USC, Los Angeles, USA, February 28, 2020
* Finance Canada and Global Affairs Canada, Presentation on "Reading the Tea Leaves of China in 2020: Political Dimensions", The China Roundtable, Ottawa, January 23, 2020
* Boston University, Pardee School of Global Studies, presentation on "The AIIB: New Multilateralism for the Emerging World Order", Boston, November 4, 2019
* Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), Berlin, Germany, September 19, 2019
* Invited Presenter, German Federal Ministry of Finance, Berlin, Germany, September 18, 2019
* Speaker on Panel at Harvard University Professor Ezra Vogel's Keynote Address, York University, Toronto, September 13, 2019
* European University Institute, "China's Financial Diplomacy: Recent Trends, Forthcoming Challenges" and "Envisioning China's Global Future Scenarios", Fiesole, Italy, July 8-10, 2019
* Presentation of Report for IDRC on "China's Evolving Support for Scientific and Development Research in Developing Countries", IDRC Headquarters, Ottawa, June 14, 2019
* University of Ottawa and Carleton University, Presentation on "Clarifying Canada's Strategic Choices: Canada-US/China Relations", Conference on Canada-China Relations in Crisis, Ottawa, June 13, 2019
* Johns Hopkins University, SAIS, FPI Fellows Lecture, Washington DC, April 11, 2019
* ISA Distinguished Scholar Panel (in honour of Andrew F. Cooper), Toronto, Canada, March 28, 2019
* Invited Speaker, Thomas Shoyama Annual Lecture, Department of Finance Canada, Ottawa, December 11, 2018 (Keynote Presentation by Lord Jim O'Neill, Chair of Chatham House)
* University of California San Diego, Workshop on Summit Diplomacy in Asia: Political and Economic Tracks, School of Global Policy and Strategy, USA, October 19, 2018 (Essay published in Global Asia)
* European University Institute, "China's Financial Diplomacy" and "The Future of the New Development Bank", EUI, Academy of Global Governance, Florence, Italy, October 4-6, 2018
* South African Institute of International Affairs and the National Treasury of South Africa, "Pre-BRICS Summit Meeting on the BRICS and Africa", Johannesburg/Sandton, South Africa, July 24, 2018
* Balsillie School of International Affairs, discussant on Comparing the Modalities of the NDB and the AIIB, Waterloo, July 16, 2018
* Department of Finance, Government of Canada, "Canada-China Relations: Lessons from the Strange Tale of the Renminbi and the SDR", Ottawa, March 7, 2018
* Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, "Think Forum - The Future of Global Governance", Washington DC, September 28, 2017
* Boston University, Pardee School, "Beyond Betton Woods" workshop, Boston, September 15, 2017
* International Studies Association, International Conference, Hong Kong, June 2017
* The University of British Columbia, "Making an International Currency: Renminbi Internationalization", April 27, 2017
* Princeton University, PIIRS Research Community on Empires and the Princeton-Harvard China & the World Program, Panel on "China's Expansionism - New Informal Empire?, April 17, 2017
* ISA Presidential Theme Panel on "Making Change Peaceful: Exploring Mechanisms", Baltimore, February 2017
* Export Development Canada and Conference Board of Canada, "Canada's Renminbi Hub", Ottawa, November 2, 2016
* Department of Finance, Government of Canada, "Green Finance: China as Global Financial Innovator", Ottawa, October 31, 2016
* Carleton University, SSHRC-funded Workshop on "Canada and China in the Pacific Century", Ottawa, October 28, 2016
* University of California Berkeley, "Shaping a New Political-Economic Order in the Asia-Pacific", October 21, 2016
* Boston University, UNCTAD-GEGI Workshop on Development Finance Institutions of the South, October 12, 2016
* New Development Bank (NDB), Shanghai, May 31, 2016
* Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS), Shanghai, May 30, 2016
* Shanghai Forum, hosted at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, May 29, 2016
* The Tobin Project, "Reassessing Threat Assessment", Washington, DC, May 2016
* Boston University, Pardee School of Global Studies, "China's Rising Economic Statecraft - Development Finance in Perspective", April 1, 2016
* Global Affairs Canada, "China in Africa", Ottawa, November 5, 2015
* Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, Foreign Policy Institute, Washington, DC, October 16, 2015
* Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Copenhagen, Denmark, October 6, 2015
* Danmarks Nationalbank, "Chinese Monetary Policy and Internationalization of the Renminbi", Copenhagen, Denmark, October 5, 2015
* University of Pennsylvania, Center for the Study of Contemporary China, 3rd Annual Conference, Philadelphia, USA, April 31-May 1, 2015
* ISA Opening Presidential Panel, FLASCO-ISA Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 2014
* ISA Presidential Panel in Honour of Benjamin J. Cohen, Argentina, July 2014
* Cornell University, Presentation on The Political Economy of Renminbi Internationalization, February 2014
* Brown University, Presentation on China as a Foreign Aid Giver, November 2013
* Peking University, School of International Studies, and UNU-WIDER, Workshop on Transational Policy Networks, Asia and Europe, September 2012
* University of Southern California, "Presentation on Trans-Pacific Options for Global Rebalancing", April 2011
* University of Cambridge, Presentation on "Regionalization of the Renminbi", May 2010
* Princeton University, Workshop on Rising States, Rising Institutions, August 2008
* Testimony on Canada-China Political Relations before the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee of the Parliament of Canada, Ottawa, May 2008
* University of the West Indies, Inaugural Chinese New Year Lecture, "In the Shadow of Great Power Rivalry: The Global Rise of China in the Caribbean", UWI Institute of International Relations, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad, February 2008
Research Interests
Current Research Projects
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Summary:
Contributing author for the Project, "Chrétien's World", on Canada's foreign policy during the period of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, 1993-2003.
Description:The Project is led and organized by the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto, and supported by Global Affairs Canada.
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The Emerging Global Governance (EGG) Project is a collaborative research initiative led by Gregory Chin at York University (Canada) and Eva-Maria Nag at Global Policy journal, Durham University, as the principal partners, and The Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, Foreign Policy Institute as a legacy partner. The EGG project profiles new evidence-based research and analysis of distinguished thinkers and practitioners on emerging issues, actors and arrangements in global governance.
Description:The goal of the EGG Project is to bridge the ongoing gap in knowledge-sharing between the scholarly and policy communities. The Project brings together leading scholars, early-career scholars, and policy practitioners to profile leading-edge research on key emerging issues and emerging actors in global governance, global collective action, global public goods provision, and global risk management across the range of relevant sectors and issue-areas, including global economy and development; the biosphere, environment, and climate change; global security; global health; digitalization, artificial intelligence, big data; global indigenous rights; international migration.
- Month: Aug Year: 2016
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Research and Book Project
Description:The field research, writing and publishing for this Project has been ongoing since 2009. Chin is currently completing a book manuscript on the political economy of the internationalization of China's currency, Renminbi. The Project publications, to date, include:
G.T. Chin, "Cat's Out of the Bag: China's Currency Challenge", July 2009
G.T. Chin and Wang Yong, "China Debates: The Dollar System and Beyond", in Chatham House Report, Beyond the Dollar: Rethinking the International Monetary System (2010)
G.T. Chin and Wang Yong, "Debating the International Currency System: What's in a Speech", China Security, 6(1), 2010, pp.3-20
G.T. Chin, "RMB Internationalization: Singapore Style", July 2012
G.T. Chin, "Off to the RMB Races: The Singapore Stock Exchange", July 2012
G.T. Chin, "Globalizing the RMB", Asian Development Bank - Asia Pathways, July 2014
G.T. Chin, "China's Rising Monetary Power", in E. Helleiner and J. Kirshner (eds.), The Great Wall of Money (Cornell University Press, 2014)
G.T. Chin, "True Revisionist: China and the Global Monetary System", in J. deLisle and A. Goldstein (eds.), China's Global Engagement (Brookings Institution Press, 2016)
G.T. Chin, LSE Public Lecture: "China's Global Rise: The Renminbi and the Making of an International Currency", November 15, 2022.
- Month: Jan Year: 2009
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Research, Publications, Communications Project
Description:The research for this project has been ongoing since Spring 2007. Chin is currently completing a new book on the BRICS Plus group of nations as Rising Powers. The Project publications and activities, to date, include:
G.T. Chin, "Emerging Donors in International Development Assistance: The China Case", IDRC Research Report, International Development Research Center, December 2007.
G.T. Chin and Eric Helleiner, "China as a Creditor: A Rising Financial Power?", Journal of International Affairs (Columbia University), 62(1), Fall 2008, pp.87-102.
Timothy Shaw, Andrew Cooper, G.T. Chin, "Emerging Powers and Africa: Implications for/from Global Governance", Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies, 36(1), April 2009, pp.27-44.
G.T. Chin, "Remaking the Architecture: The Emerging Powers, Self-Insuring and Regional Insulation", International Affairs, 86(3), May 2010, pp.693-715.
G.T. Chin and Ramesh Thakur, "Will China Change the Rules of the Global Order?", The Washington Quarterly, 33(4), October 2010, pp.119-138.
G.T. Chin, "The Emerging Countries and China in the G20: Reshaping Global Economic Governance", Studia Diplomatica (The Brussels Journal of International Relations), 63(2), November 2010, pp.105-123.
G.T. Chin, "China's Rising Institutional Influence", in A. Alexandroff and A.F. Cooper (eds.), Rising States, Rising Institutions: Challenges for Global Governance. (Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2010).
G.T. Chin, "Mediating Financial Instability: China, the BRICs and Continuing Rise", in Paolo Savona, John Kirton and Chiara Oldani (eds.) Global Financial Crisis: Global Impact and Solutions (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011).
G.T. Chin, "Realigning Global Governance: Regionalism in China's Financial Rise", Harvard Asia Quarterly, May 2011.
G.T. Chin and Fahimul Quadir, "Introduction: Rising States, Rising Donors and the Global Aid Regime", Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 25(4), December 2012.
G.T. Chin, "China as a 'Net Donor': Tracking Dollars and Sense", Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 25(4), December 2012.
G.T. Chin, "The Economic Diplomacy of the Rising Powers", in A. Cooper, J. Heine and R. Thakur (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
G.T. Chin, "The BRICS-Led New Development Bank: Purpose and Politics Beyond the G20", Global Policy, 5(3), September 2014.
G.T. Chin and Jorge Heine, "Consultative Forums: State Power and Multilateral Institutions", in B. Currie-Adler, R. Kanbur, D. Malone and R. Medhora (eds.), International Development: Ideas, Experience and Prospects (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
G.T. Chin, ""The State of the Art: Trends in the Study of the BRICS and Multilateral Organizations", in Dries Lesage and Thijs Van de Graff (eds.) Rising Powers and Multilateral Institutions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
G.T. Chin, "Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Governance Innovation and Prospects", Global Governance, 22(1), 2016, pp.11-26.
G.T. Chin and Ismael Diaz, "Brazil in Regional and Global Governance: Foreign Policy, Leadership, and UNASUR", International Organisations Research Journal, 11(2), 2016, pp.71-96.
G.T. Chin, "The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank - New Multilateralism: Early Development, Innovation and Future Agendas", Global Policy, 10(4), November 2019, pp.569-581.
G.T. Chin and Karin Costa Vazquez, "The AIIB and Sustainable Infrastructure: A Hybrid Layered Approach", Global Policy, 10(4), November 2019, pp.593-603.
G.T. Chin and Kevin P. Gallagher, "Coordinated Credit Spaces: The Globalization of Chinese Development Finance", Development & Change, 50(1).
G.T. Chin, "Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Governance Innovation and Prospects", in Kurt Mills and Kendall Stiles (eds.), Understanding Global Cooperation: Twenty-Five Years of Research on Global Governance (Brill, 2021).
G.T. Chin and Zhu Jiejin, "Infrastructure at the G20", in Jan Wouters and Dries Lesage (eds.), The G20, Development and the UN Agenda 2030 (Routledge, 2022).
G.T. Chin, "Introduction - The Evolution of New Development Bank: A Decade Plus in the Making", Global Policy, 15(2), June 2024, pp.368-382.
G.T. Chin and Rifat Kamal, "Bangladesh and New Development Bank (NDB): Accession and After, Money and More", Global Policy, 15(2), June 2024, pp.414-426.
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"The Evolution of the New Development Bank (NDB)", Global Policy, 15(2), June 2024.
"The AIIB in Global Perspective: Early Development, Innovation, and Future Agendas", Global Policy, 10(4), November 2019. (co-edited with Giuseppe Gabusi, Carla M. Freeman and Giovanni Andornino)
"International Political Economy in China", Review of International Political Economy, 20(6), 2013 (co-edited with Margaret Pearson)
"Rising States, Rising Donors - BRICS and Beyond", Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 25(4), December 2012 (co-edited with Fahimul Quadir)
Special Issue on International System Change and New Great Power Relations (edited by Zhang Jianxin).
(Reposted on the Future of Learning Institute, Harvard University, Graduate School of Education, Learning Hub)
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter 2025 | GS/POLS6625 3.0 | M | The Political Economy of the BRICS | SEMR |
| Fall/Winter 2024 | GS/POLS6410 6.0 | A | The Study Of Comparative Politics | SEMR |
Gregory Chin is an Associate Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Politics, and Faculty of Graduate Studies at York University (Canada), with a focus on the political economy of international money and development finance, and China, Asia, the BRICS, and global governance. His research started in the early 1990s, and spans four decades. He was the Mayling Birney Global Scholar at The London School of Economics and Political Science from 2022 until 2023, and is an Associate of the LSE IDEAS think tank. He is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow of the Global China Initiative at Boston University's Global Development Policy Center, and of the Foreign Policy Institute at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He served as External Examiner for Hong Kong Education University's Global and Environmental Studies Program from 2018-2022.
His activities are divided into research and teaching, doctoral student supervision, publishing, administrative duties, and project management. His recent publications include the book, China and the Global Economic Order (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Elements, Global China Series, coauthored with Kevin P. Gallagher, forthcoming 2025), and "China's Digital Renminbi (e-CNY) as Financial Inclusion: The Global Frontier of Central Bank Digital Currency" (forthcoming March 2025 in Global Public Policy and Governance journal). Latest commentary: "The New G-ZERO, Why It Matters", posted online by Global Policy journal. Recent presentation, “China's Global Rise: The Renminbi and the Making of an International Currency”, LSE Public Lecture. Recent CBC News Report and CBC News interview on Canada's approach to China. Quoted in The Wire on the Renminbi's role in dealing with US sanctions, Time Magazine on the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, The Economist on the BRICS-led New Development Bank, and The Financial Times on China and global economic governance.
He co-directs the “Emerging Global Governance” (EGG) Project with Dr. Eva-Maria Nag, Executive Editor of the journal Global Policy.
Expert Reviewer and Contributor to the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation "South-South Ideas Paper Series" and the research work of the UNOSSC.
Advisory or editorial board member of the journals Review of International Political Economy, Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, and Journal of East Asian Studies. Co-editor of Review of International Political Economy from 2012-2015.
SSHRC-funded multi-year project on the "Political Economy of China's Currency Choices" (2010-2013). (with Paul Bowles [PI] and Wang Baotai at University of Northern British Columbia)
Projects and research papers on currency internationalization and regional financial cooperation with the Asian Development Bank (Manila), Asian Development Bank Institute (Tokyo), and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKIMR).
Contributed to writing the United Nations Development Programme-China Development Bank Joint Report on Harmonizing Investment and Financing Standards Along the Belt & Road, published November 2019
Wrote the Report for Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) on "China's Evolving Support for Scientific and Development Research in Developing Countries" (June 2019); Report for IDRC on "China's Rise as an Emerging Donor" (2007); and led the "Rising Aid Donors: The BRICS and Beyond" project funded by IDRC (2010-11).
Visiting fellowships at Peking University (1997-1998, Canada-China Exchange Scholarship), University of Cambridge (Darwin College & the Department of Politics and International Studies, April-May 2010), University of Sheffield (Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute, June-July 2014), Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China (at the Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences, June 2016), The London School of Economics and Political Science (October-November 2022), and Boston University (May 2023).
Assessed grant proposals for The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) of the UK, the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, and The Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada.
Reviewed journal article submissions for Asian Survey, Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, The China Quarterly, The China Journal, China Information, China Review, European Journal of International Relations, Global Studies Quarterly, International Affairs, International Journal, International Political Science Review, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, International Studies Quarterly, International Studies Review, The Journal of Development Studies, Review of International Studies, Studies in Comparative International Development, World Development, World Politics.
Reviewed book manuscripts and book proposals for Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press, University of Toronto Press and Yale University Press.
From 2000 to 2006, Chin served in the Government of Canada, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, the Canadian International Development Agency, and the Canadian Embassy in Beijing. Member of the Interdepartmental "China Watchers" Group, chaired by The Privy Council Office, IAS (2001-2003). Received the "Citation of Excellence" from the Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chrétien for work on the 2001 Team Canada Mission to China (Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong). Embassy core team for Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin's official visit to China in January 2005.
Prior to joining York University in 2007, he was First Secretary (Development) at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing 2003-2006. He handled strategic policy engagement with decision-makers in China, government agencies, key Chinese think tanks, and liaised with diplomatic representatives of other countries, the major multilateral development banks and international organizations, and private international foundations and donors.
He designed and managed Canada's large-scale multi-year official development assistance programs and projects in China in the areas of governance reform, economic and social development, infrastructure development, and environmental protection (projects spanning 2001-2011). He maintained the watching brief (2004-06) on Canada's humanitarian assistance to North Korea delivered via the United Nations, specifically the UNDP, WHO, WFP, FAO, and UNICEF.
Degrees
PhD Political Science, York UniversityAppointments
Faculty of Graduate StudiesCommunity Contributions
Recent Keynote Lectures or Invited Presentations
* London School of Economics and Political Science, Moderator for Cheng-Chwee Kuik presentation on "Navigating Middle Power Diplomacy: Southeast Asia and BRICS", Global South Dialogue Series, hosted by LSE IDEAS, Global South Unit, February 12, 2024 (forthcoming)
* The University of Hong Kong, lecture on "Political Economy of Renminbi Internationalization", Department of Politics and Public Administration, December 6, 2024
* University of Toronto, "Jean Chrétien's foreign policy: Canada-China relations", November 19, 2024
* CAF-LSE Annual Conference, "A New Era: Latin America's Turn to Asia", London School of Economics and Political Science, November 2024
* Boston University, "A Decade in the Making: The Evolution of the New Development Bank", Global Development Policy Center, October 4, 2024
* Global Summitry Project, "Interview on the BRICS+ and the New Development Bank", Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, September 22, 2024
* Erasmus (EU) Blended Intensive Program, Invited Online Lecture on "Digital Yuan, from Local to Global?: RMB Internationalization in the Making", co-hosted by University of Turin (Italy), Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO, Paris, France), and University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), March 20, 2024
* University of Toronto, "Canada's Approach to China during the Chrétien Years", Trinity College, November 23, 2023
* The Shanghai Forum, "Digital Yuan and Inclusive Development ", Fudan University, Institute for Global Public Policy, Shanghai, October 29, 2023
* Fudan University, "Studying Renminbi Internationalization: A Dynamic IPE Perspective and Its Main Contributions", School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Shanghai, October 26, 2023
* Boston University, Global Development Policy Center, Global China Initiative visit as Senior Research Fellow, Boston, USA, May 2023
* The China Roundtable, "China's Foreign Policy after the Two Sessions 2023" [invitation only], hosted by Department of Finance Canada and Global Affairs Canada, Ottawa, 20 April 2023
* University of Turin, "US Financial Warfare on China - New Type of Cold War?", TOChina Seminar Program, March 20, 2023
* International Studies Association Committee Panel, "Diversifying Conversations in International Political Economy - Insights from the Global South", Montreal, March 2023
* Carleton University, presentation at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs on "Global Monetary Disorder and China's Renminbi Internationalization", Ottawa, January 13, 2023
* Peking University, Overseas Scholar Lecture on "The International Organization of the Belt and Road Initiative: Nesting in China-led Institution-Building", School of International Studies, November 28, 2022
* The London School of Economics and Political Science, Inaugural Mayling Birney Memorial Lecture: "China's Global Rise -- The Renminbi and the Making of an International Currency", LSE Public Lecture, London, UK, November 15, 2022
* Fudan University, Shanghai and The London School of Economics and Political Science, Research Workshop on "China and the Global South", November 8, 2022
* Carleton University and University of Victoria, "Concluding Remarks" at Conference "Hardtalk: Canada and the Asia Pacific" (timestamp 5:53:22), and iaffairs Interview, Ottawa, October 24, 2022
* University of Victoria, "Renminbi Internationalization: Government and Corporate Drivers and the Impact of COVID-19?", Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, Victoria, British Columbia, October 20, 2022
* Book launch for Canada Among Nations 2021, hosted by Sarwar Kashmeri on PolarisLive, October 3, 2022
* University of British Columbia, presentation on "China's Arrival - Globalization and Global Governance", Department of Political Science, course instructed by the Honourable Sergio Marchi on "Globalization and the Challenges of Global Governance", September 26, 2022
* University of Manitoba, Inaugural Tony T.K. Lau Lecture on Contemporary China, Winnipeg, September 22, 2022
* University of Toronto, presentation of paper, "Canada's Relations with China during the Chrétien Years", Conference on "Chrétien's World: Canadian Foreign Policy, 1993-2003", hosted by The Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, University of Toronto, September 9, 2022
* Dartmouth College, Lecture on "The United States and China in a New World Order", Hanover, New Hampshire, USA, May 16, 2022
* Global Affairs Canada, Excellence Hour, discussion with Canadian Consul General in Hong Kong and Gregory Chin on "Hong Kong's future as an International Financial Center", May 5, 2022
* United States Institute of Peace, Expert discussion on "China and Global Conflict Prevention Norms", USIP, Washington DC, April 25, 2022
* Johns Hopkins University, “Diplomatic Capacity Index Expert Roundtable”, Foreign Policy Institute, School of Advanced International Studies, April 5, 2022
* The Evolution of the New Development Bank e-workshop, for the Emerging Global Governance (EGG) Project, March 23-24, 2022
* Goethe University Frankfurt, "Europe's Unique Role in Renminbi Internationalization", Graduate Program in Modern East Asian Studies, Economic Aspects, Germany, February 8, 2022
* University of Toronto, discussant for the book talk of Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia, by David Lampton, Selina Ho and Cheng-Chwee Kuik, The Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, January 20, 2022
* Interview with Sarwar A. Kashmeri, Host for Polaris-Live: US and China in the World, November 24, 2021
* Kyoto Peace Conference 2021, panel presentation on the "The Unintended Consequences of US Financial Warfare on China and Hong Kong", hosted by International Peace and Sustainability Organization, panel sponsored by Torino World Affairs Institute and IPSO, Kyoto, Japan, October 30, 2021
* Boston University, discussant for Paulo Nogueira Batista Júnior book talk, The BRICS and the Financing Mechanisms They Created, hosted by BU Global Development Policy Center and the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston, USA, October 28, 2021
* Carleton University, "Canada-China Relations amid the U.S.-China Trade War", workshop for Canada Among Nations 2021, The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Ottawa, October 16, 2021
* University of Toronto and Charhar Institute (Beijing), "Canada-China Forum", June 28, 2021
* Università di Torino, "Chinese Development Finance" and "Renminbi Internationalization and the Belt and Road", TOChina Summer School, Italy, June 21, 2021
* Brown University, Workshop on "Economic Warfare: What Can World War One Tell Us About 21st Century Conflicts?", Brown University, William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance, and The US Naval War College, April-May 2021
* Università di Torino, "Summitry and Corporate-Government Relations for the Belt and Road", TOChina Spring Seminar (webinar), Italy, April 7, 2021
* Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Global Studies Program, webinar presentation on "Bridging Western and Chinese Civilizations for Global Governance", March 1, 2021
* Brown University, "Central Banking in China: The PBOC in Comparative and International Perspective", webinar presentation to the Politics of Central Banking Working Group, William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance, January 29, 2021
* Canadian International Council, virtual panel on "Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) in the Asia-Pacific: Challenges and Opportunities for Canada" (with Senator Yuen Pau Woo and Ambassador Bruce Jutzi), CIC National Capital Branch, Ottawa, December 16, 2020
* Digital Yuan and RMB Internationalization Along the Belt and Road", webinar presentation to the South-South and Triangular Cooperation among Maritime-Continental Silk Road Cities for Sustainable Development Project, UNOSSC Cities Project, November 13, 2020 (Beijing time zone)
* Global Affairs Canada, Excellence Hour, discussion with Canadian Ambassador Dominic Barton and Gregory Chin on "A Proposal for a Bold Rethink of Canada's Approach to China", September 4, 2020 (Beijing time zone)
* Center for Global Development (Washington DC), Expert panel member for "AIIB: The Next Five Years", Conversation with Sir Danny Alexander, AIIB Vice President, moderated by Scott Morris, Senior Fellow, CGD, July 9, 2020
* Johns Hopkins University, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Moderator and discussant for webinar presentation by former IMF First Deputy Managing Director, Dr. John Lipsky on "Economic Prospects and Global Policy Collaboration in a Time of the COVID 19 Crisis", April 30, 2020
* ISA Presidential Panel, Sapphire Series, "Institutional Diversity and Regional Orders", and Roundtable on "Diversity in the Global Currency System: Good, Bad or Inevitable?", ISA Annual Conference, Hawaii, USA, March 2020 (cancelled due to COVID 19)
* University of Southern California, "Transnational Lineages of the Developmental State" workshop, USC, Los Angeles, USA, February 28, 2020
* Finance Canada and Global Affairs Canada, Presentation on "Reading the Tea Leaves of China in 2020: Political Dimensions", The China Roundtable, Ottawa, January 23, 2020
* Boston University, Pardee School of Global Studies, presentation on "The AIIB: New Multilateralism for the Emerging World Order", Boston, November 4, 2019
* Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), Berlin, Germany, September 19, 2019
* Invited Presenter, German Federal Ministry of Finance, Berlin, Germany, September 18, 2019
* Speaker on Panel at Harvard University Professor Ezra Vogel's Keynote Address, York University, Toronto, September 13, 2019
* European University Institute, "China's Financial Diplomacy: Recent Trends, Forthcoming Challenges" and "Envisioning China's Global Future Scenarios", Fiesole, Italy, July 8-10, 2019
* Presentation of Report for IDRC on "China's Evolving Support for Scientific and Development Research in Developing Countries", IDRC Headquarters, Ottawa, June 14, 2019
* University of Ottawa and Carleton University, Presentation on "Clarifying Canada's Strategic Choices: Canada-US/China Relations", Conference on Canada-China Relations in Crisis, Ottawa, June 13, 2019
* Johns Hopkins University, SAIS, FPI Fellows Lecture, Washington DC, April 11, 2019
* ISA Distinguished Scholar Panel (in honour of Andrew F. Cooper), Toronto, Canada, March 28, 2019
* Invited Speaker, Thomas Shoyama Annual Lecture, Department of Finance Canada, Ottawa, December 11, 2018 (Keynote Presentation by Lord Jim O'Neill, Chair of Chatham House)
* University of California San Diego, Workshop on Summit Diplomacy in Asia: Political and Economic Tracks, School of Global Policy and Strategy, USA, October 19, 2018 (Essay published in Global Asia)
* European University Institute, "China's Financial Diplomacy" and "The Future of the New Development Bank", EUI, Academy of Global Governance, Florence, Italy, October 4-6, 2018
* South African Institute of International Affairs and the National Treasury of South Africa, "Pre-BRICS Summit Meeting on the BRICS and Africa", Johannesburg/Sandton, South Africa, July 24, 2018
* Balsillie School of International Affairs, discussant on Comparing the Modalities of the NDB and the AIIB, Waterloo, July 16, 2018
* Department of Finance, Government of Canada, "Canada-China Relations: Lessons from the Strange Tale of the Renminbi and the SDR", Ottawa, March 7, 2018
* Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, "Think Forum - The Future of Global Governance", Washington DC, September 28, 2017
* Boston University, Pardee School, "Beyond Betton Woods" workshop, Boston, September 15, 2017
* International Studies Association, International Conference, Hong Kong, June 2017
* The University of British Columbia, "Making an International Currency: Renminbi Internationalization", April 27, 2017
* Princeton University, PIIRS Research Community on Empires and the Princeton-Harvard China & the World Program, Panel on "China's Expansionism - New Informal Empire?, April 17, 2017
* ISA Presidential Theme Panel on "Making Change Peaceful: Exploring Mechanisms", Baltimore, February 2017
* Export Development Canada and Conference Board of Canada, "Canada's Renminbi Hub", Ottawa, November 2, 2016
* Department of Finance, Government of Canada, "Green Finance: China as Global Financial Innovator", Ottawa, October 31, 2016
* Carleton University, SSHRC-funded Workshop on "Canada and China in the Pacific Century", Ottawa, October 28, 2016
* University of California Berkeley, "Shaping a New Political-Economic Order in the Asia-Pacific", October 21, 2016
* Boston University, UNCTAD-GEGI Workshop on Development Finance Institutions of the South, October 12, 2016
* New Development Bank (NDB), Shanghai, May 31, 2016
* Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS), Shanghai, May 30, 2016
* Shanghai Forum, hosted at Fudan University, Shanghai, China, May 29, 2016
* The Tobin Project, "Reassessing Threat Assessment", Washington, DC, May 2016
* Boston University, Pardee School of Global Studies, "China's Rising Economic Statecraft - Development Finance in Perspective", April 1, 2016
* Global Affairs Canada, "China in Africa", Ottawa, November 5, 2015
* Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, Foreign Policy Institute, Washington, DC, October 16, 2015
* Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Copenhagen, Denmark, October 6, 2015
* Danmarks Nationalbank, "Chinese Monetary Policy and Internationalization of the Renminbi", Copenhagen, Denmark, October 5, 2015
* University of Pennsylvania, Center for the Study of Contemporary China, 3rd Annual Conference, Philadelphia, USA, April 31-May 1, 2015
* ISA Opening Presidential Panel, FLASCO-ISA Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 2014
* ISA Presidential Panel in Honour of Benjamin J. Cohen, Argentina, July 2014
* Cornell University, Presentation on The Political Economy of Renminbi Internationalization, February 2014
* Brown University, Presentation on China as a Foreign Aid Giver, November 2013
* Peking University, School of International Studies, and UNU-WIDER, Workshop on Transational Policy Networks, Asia and Europe, September 2012
* University of Southern California, "Presentation on Trans-Pacific Options for Global Rebalancing", April 2011
* University of Cambridge, Presentation on "Regionalization of the Renminbi", May 2010
* Princeton University, Workshop on Rising States, Rising Institutions, August 2008
* Testimony on Canada-China Political Relations before the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee of the Parliament of Canada, Ottawa, May 2008
* University of the West Indies, Inaugural Chinese New Year Lecture, "In the Shadow of Great Power Rivalry: The Global Rise of China in the Caribbean", UWI Institute of International Relations, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad, February 2008
Research Interests
Current Research Projects
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Summary:
Contributing author for the Project, "Chrétien's World", on Canada's foreign policy during the period of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, 1993-2003.
Description:The Project is led and organized by the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto, and supported by Global Affairs Canada.
Project Type: FundedStart Date:
- Month: Sep Year: 2021
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Summary:
The Emerging Global Governance (EGG) Project is a collaborative research initiative led by Gregory Chin at York University (Canada) and Eva-Maria Nag at Global Policy journal, Durham University, as the principal partners, and The Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, Foreign Policy Institute as a legacy partner. The EGG project profiles new evidence-based research and analysis of distinguished thinkers and practitioners on emerging issues, actors and arrangements in global governance.
Description:The goal of the EGG Project is to bridge the ongoing gap in knowledge-sharing between the scholarly and policy communities. The Project brings together leading scholars, early-career scholars, and policy practitioners to profile leading-edge research on key emerging issues and emerging actors in global governance, global collective action, global public goods provision, and global risk management across the range of relevant sectors and issue-areas, including global economy and development; the biosphere, environment, and climate change; global security; global health; digitalization, artificial intelligence, big data; global indigenous rights; international migration.
Project Type: FundedStart Date:
- Month: Aug Year: 2016
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Summary:
Research and Book Project
Description:The field research, writing and publishing for this Project has been ongoing since 2009. Chin is currently completing a book manuscript on the political economy of the internationalization of China's currency, Renminbi. The Project publications, to date, include:
G.T. Chin, "Cat's Out of the Bag: China's Currency Challenge", July 2009
G.T. Chin and Wang Yong, "China Debates: The Dollar System and Beyond", in Chatham House Report, Beyond the Dollar: Rethinking the International Monetary System (2010)
G.T. Chin and Wang Yong, "Debating the International Currency System: What's in a Speech", China Security, 6(1), 2010, pp.3-20
G.T. Chin, "RMB Internationalization: Singapore Style", July 2012
G.T. Chin, "Off to the RMB Races: The Singapore Stock Exchange", July 2012
G.T. Chin, "Globalizing the RMB", Asian Development Bank - Asia Pathways, July 2014
G.T. Chin, "China's Rising Monetary Power", in E. Helleiner and J. Kirshner (eds.), The Great Wall of Money (Cornell University Press, 2014)
G.T. Chin, "True Revisionist: China and the Global Monetary System", in J. deLisle and A. Goldstein (eds.), China's Global Engagement (Brookings Institution Press, 2016)
G.T. Chin, LSE Public Lecture: "China's Global Rise: The Renminbi and the Making of an International Currency", November 15, 2022.
Project Type: FundedStart Date:
- Month: Jan Year: 2009
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Summary:
Research, Publications, Communications Project
Description:The research for this project has been ongoing since Spring 2007. Chin is currently completing a new book on the BRICS Plus group of nations as Rising Powers. The Project publications and activities, to date, include:
G.T. Chin, "Emerging Donors in International Development Assistance: The China Case", IDRC Research Report, International Development Research Center, December 2007.
G.T. Chin and Eric Helleiner, "China as a Creditor: A Rising Financial Power?", Journal of International Affairs (Columbia University), 62(1), Fall 2008, pp.87-102.
Timothy Shaw, Andrew Cooper, G.T. Chin, "Emerging Powers and Africa: Implications for/from Global Governance", Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies, 36(1), April 2009, pp.27-44.
G.T. Chin, "Remaking the Architecture: The Emerging Powers, Self-Insuring and Regional Insulation", International Affairs, 86(3), May 2010, pp.693-715.
G.T. Chin and Ramesh Thakur, "Will China Change the Rules of the Global Order?", The Washington Quarterly, 33(4), October 2010, pp.119-138.
G.T. Chin, "The Emerging Countries and China in the G20: Reshaping Global Economic Governance", Studia Diplomatica (The Brussels Journal of International Relations), 63(2), November 2010, pp.105-123.
G.T. Chin, "China's Rising Institutional Influence", in A. Alexandroff and A.F. Cooper (eds.), Rising States, Rising Institutions: Challenges for Global Governance. (Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2010).
G.T. Chin, "Mediating Financial Instability: China, the BRICs and Continuing Rise", in Paolo Savona, John Kirton and Chiara Oldani (eds.) Global Financial Crisis: Global Impact and Solutions (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011).
G.T. Chin, "Realigning Global Governance: Regionalism in China's Financial Rise", Harvard Asia Quarterly, May 2011.
G.T. Chin and Fahimul Quadir, "Introduction: Rising States, Rising Donors and the Global Aid Regime", Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 25(4), December 2012.
G.T. Chin, "China as a 'Net Donor': Tracking Dollars and Sense", Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 25(4), December 2012.
G.T. Chin, "The Economic Diplomacy of the Rising Powers", in A. Cooper, J. Heine and R. Thakur (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
G.T. Chin, "The BRICS-Led New Development Bank: Purpose and Politics Beyond the G20", Global Policy, 5(3), September 2014.
G.T. Chin and Jorge Heine, "Consultative Forums: State Power and Multilateral Institutions", in B. Currie-Adler, R. Kanbur, D. Malone and R. Medhora (eds.), International Development: Ideas, Experience and Prospects (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
G.T. Chin, ""The State of the Art: Trends in the Study of the BRICS and Multilateral Organizations", in Dries Lesage and Thijs Van de Graff (eds.) Rising Powers and Multilateral Institutions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
G.T. Chin, "Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Governance Innovation and Prospects", Global Governance, 22(1), 2016, pp.11-26.
G.T. Chin and Ismael Diaz, "Brazil in Regional and Global Governance: Foreign Policy, Leadership, and UNASUR", International Organisations Research Journal, 11(2), 2016, pp.71-96.
G.T. Chin, "The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank - New Multilateralism: Early Development, Innovation and Future Agendas", Global Policy, 10(4), November 2019, pp.569-581.
G.T. Chin and Karin Costa Vazquez, "The AIIB and Sustainable Infrastructure: A Hybrid Layered Approach", Global Policy, 10(4), November 2019, pp.593-603.
G.T. Chin and Kevin P. Gallagher, "Coordinated Credit Spaces: The Globalization of Chinese Development Finance", Development & Change, 50(1).
G.T. Chin, "Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Governance Innovation and Prospects", in Kurt Mills and Kendall Stiles (eds.), Understanding Global Cooperation: Twenty-Five Years of Research on Global Governance (Brill, 2021).
G.T. Chin and Zhu Jiejin, "Infrastructure at the G20", in Jan Wouters and Dries Lesage (eds.), The G20, Development and the UN Agenda 2030 (Routledge, 2022).
G.T. Chin, "Introduction - The Evolution of New Development Bank: A Decade Plus in the Making", Global Policy, 15(2), June 2024, pp.368-382.
G.T. Chin and Rifat Kamal, "Bangladesh and New Development Bank (NDB): Accession and After, Money and More", Global Policy, 15(2), June 2024, pp.414-426.
Project Type: FundedStart Date:
- Month: Jan Year: 2007
All Publications
"The Evolution of the New Development Bank (NDB)", Global Policy, 15(2), June 2024.
"The AIIB in Global Perspective: Early Development, Innovation, and Future Agendas", Global Policy, 10(4), November 2019. (co-edited with Giuseppe Gabusi, Carla M. Freeman and Giovanni Andornino)
"International Political Economy in China", Review of International Political Economy, 20(6), 2013 (co-edited with Margaret Pearson)
"Rising States, Rising Donors - BRICS and Beyond", Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 25(4), December 2012 (co-edited with Fahimul Quadir)
Special Issue on International System Change and New Great Power Relations (edited by Zhang Jianxin).
(Reposted on the Future of Learning Institute, Harvard University, Graduate School of Education, Learning Hub)
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter 2025 | GS/POLS6625 3.0 | M | The Political Economy of the BRICS | SEMR |
| Fall/Winter 2024 | GS/POLS6410 6.0 | A | The Study Of Comparative Politics | SEMR |
