Dr. Diana Fu

Diana Fu is Associate Professor of Political Science at The University of Toronto and Director of the East Asia Seminar Series at the Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. She is also a non-resident fellow at Brookings Institution, a China fellow at the Wilson Center, and a public intellectuals fellow at the National Committee on US-China Relations. Her research examines civil society, popular contention, state control, and authoritarian citizenship in China. She is author of the award-winning book “Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China”. Dr. Fu’s commentary has appeared in BBC, Bloomberg TV, CBC, CNN, NPR, and in Foreign Affairs, US News & World Report, The New York Times, and other media. She was guest host of the TVO documentary series “China Here and Now” and of POLITICO’s China Watcher. She received her doctorate in Politics from Oxford University, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar and is currently serving as National Co-secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship for China.