Lynette Ong

Lynette Ong is the Distinguished Professor of Chinese Politics at the University of Toronto. A leading scholar of Chinese politics and political economy, she directs the China Governance Lab at the Munk School. She is the author of three books on China and comparative authoritarian politics. Her latest book, Outsourcing Repression, has won seven best book awards. She has been appointed nonresident Senior Fellow at the Asia Society’s Center for China Analysis, and the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. She has been invited to deliver expert testimonies before the US Congress and the Canadian House of Common. She frequently offers expert commentaries to international and Canadian media.

Her research has won multiple accolades, including the prestigious Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Award, the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Contribution to Political Sociology, the biennial Canadian Political Science Association’s Prize in Comparative Politics, the Human Rights Best Book Awards from APSA, ISA, and ASA, and Honorable Mention of the APSA’s Gregory Luebbert Best Book Award. She is also a recipient of the UofT Faculty of Arts & Science Dean’s Research Excellence Award.

Her academic publications have appeared in Perspectives on Politics, Journal of Comparative Politics, Journal of Democracy, China Quarterly, China Journal, among others. Her research has been covered in The Economist, New York Times, New Yorker, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Globe & Mail, etc. 

For further information, please visit her personal website: LynetteOng.com

At the China Governance Lab, she leads postdoctoral fellows, graduate fellows, and talented student researchers to be involved in various projects related to China. To find out more, write to her: lynette (dot) ong (at) utoronto (at) ca.