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Brian Wong

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Hong Kong
As seen in: Oxford Political Review, MSN Singapore, Business Insider, MSN Malaysia, MSN Philippines, MSN South Africa, Nature, Nature Communications, TIME, Yahoo News Malaysia, Yahoo Singapore and
Covers:  HK-China, Chinese Politics, Chinese Foreign Policy, Historical Injustice and Colonialism, Structural Injustice, Authoritarianism, Democracy, LGBTQIA+ Rights
Assistant Professor in Philosophy @HKUniversity | @OxfordPolRev Founder | @CCCW_hku Fellow | @rhodes_trust Sch. | Wds. @TIME @NikkeiAsia @SCMPNews
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Brian Wong’s Biography

Brian is a Rhodes Scholar (2020) from Hong Kong (DPhil in Politics), pursuing their postgraduate studies at Balliol College, University of Oxford. They graduated with a Distinction (across all modules and Thesis) in the MPhil in Politics (Theory) at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. They graduated with First Class Honours (9th out of 240+ in the 2018 cohort) from Pembroke College, University of Oxford with a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, having attended Oxford on a full scholarship under the Kwok Scholars Association and as a Pembroke College Scholar.

They are also the Founding Fellow of Governance Partners Yangon, a capacity-building oriented policy group and NGO based in Myanmar and Hong Kong, and the Founding Secretary of Citizen Action Design Ltd., a youth-centric think-tank based in Hong Kong, alongside spearheading Project Change, an initiative designed to support youth with mental health issues in the city.

Brian is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Political Review, a publication that aspires to bridge the theory and practice gap. As a columnist for the Hong Kong Economic Journal and TIME, and the Editor-at-Large for ThriveGlobal, they write regularly for publications such as Foreign Policy, Aeon, Times Higher Education, the Diplomat, Fortune, SCMP, Nikkei Asia, SupChina, having also presented and written on issues of public philosophy for the Journal of Practical Ethics, the American Philosophical Association, and the Royal Institute of Philosophy.

They are interested in a wide range of opportunities, ranging from academia, political advocacy and consultancy, risk analysis, speechwriting, to journalism and political writing.