Associate Professor Fengshi Wu

Fengshi Wu is an Associate Professor in Political Science and International Relations at the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. She is a world leading scholar in environmental politics, state-society relations, and global governance with the empirical focus on the Asia Pacific region (esp. East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia). Her recent research and teaching interests highlights the global transformation of the energy system rapidly accelerated by the challenges and geo-politics of climate change.

A graduate of the University of Maryland and Beijing University, she has been a Visiting Professor at the Harvard-Yenching Institute (2008-2009) and will be with the Sciences Po, Paris (in later 2024). She was elected to be one of the Graduate Fellows of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences based on her PhD work which documented transnational activism and policy advocacy in environmental protection and public health. Her academic works have appeared in China Journal, Environmental Politics, VOLUNTAS, China Quarterly, Global Environmental Politics, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, Journal of Contemporary China and International Studies Quarterly. She edited the book China’s Global Conquest for Resources (Routledge, 2017) on Chinese overseas investment in and acquisition of natural resources.

Prior to UNSW, she held academic positions at the University of Melbourne, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is a recipient of research grants from leading higher education authorities in the United States, Hong Kong SAR, and Singapore. Currently, she is the inaugural Series Editor of Environment and Society in Asia, Amsterdam University Press, an Executive Board of the International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR). Since 2023, she has been the Chairperson of AACaPS.