Dr. Hong is Executive Director of the Institute for China-America Studies and a Research Fellow at both the National Institute for South China Sea Studies, China, and the University of Alberta, Canada. She was previously an ITLOS-Nippon fellow for international dispute settlement and a visiting fellow at the Center for Oceans Law and Policy, University of Virginia School of Law, and at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. Dr. Hong is the author of UNCLOS and Ocean Dispute Settlement: Law and Politics in the South China Sea (2012).