Global Public Policy and Governance initiated an Emerging Scholar Advisory Board program. This program aims to engage emerging scholars in the editorial process, providing them with valuable experience and ensuring that the journal remains at the forefront of innovative research. Based on recommendations from the Editorial Board Memebers, 14 young and energetic scholars who are willing to join the Emerging Scholar Advisory Board (2025-2027) are identified. During a three-year term, members are expected to contribute to the journal in a varity of ways. Active members can stay for one more term, and excellent contributors have the opportunity to be promoted to be a full editorial board member.

The following is the name list of the emerging scholar advisory board members (sorted alphabetically):

Kaiping Chen

Kaiping Chen (PhD, Stanford University) is an Assistant Professor in Computational Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests include science and technology communication, public deliberation, and computational social science methods. Her works have been published in flagships across disciplines such as the American Political Science Review, Journal of Communication, Public Opinion Quarterly, and PNAS.

Xing Chen

Xing Chen is an Assistant Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs at Fudan University. She obtained her Ph.D. in Environmental Economics from Peking University. Her research interests include Environmental Economics and Politics, Public Opinion, and Political Economy. Currently her research examines how information, trauma, and cultural norms influence political trust and decision-making. Her research has appeared in Governance, Journal of Development Economics, World Development, and other leading journals.

Wonhyuk Cho

Wonhyuk Cho is a Senior Lecturer of Public Management and PhD Programme Director. Wonhyuk’s research interests lie in the areas of HRM, digital government, performance management, law enforcement organizations, and Asian public policy. His research articles have appeared in leading international journals in the field, such as JPART, PAR, and GIQ. He is an editorial board member for Public Administration, the Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration, and the Korean Journal of Public Administration, and review editor of the International Review of Public Administration.

Flavia Donadelli

Flavia Donadelli is an Assistant Professor in public policy and administration at Fundação Getúlio Vargas – EBAPE in Brazil. She worked as a lecturer and senior lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand from 2018 to 2023 and as a teaching fellow at LSE from 2016 to 2018. She has published in journals such as Regulation & Governance; Public Administration and Development and International Review of Administrative Sciences. She is a Research Associate at CARR – The Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation from LSE.

Ziteng Fan

Dr. Ziteng Fan is an Associate Professor at Institute for Global Public Policy, Fudan University. His research focuses on policy process of digital government, risk governance in digital society, collaborative governance in digital era. His work has been published in Public Management Review, Regulation & Governance, Information Technology & People, International Public Management Journal and other prestigious Chinese peer-reviewed academic journals. He was the winner of 2020 American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) - Section on Chinese Public Administration (SCPA) Best PhD Student Paper Award. His research projects are funded by Nature Science Foundation of China and Ministry of Education of China.

Mobarak Hossain

Mobarak Hossain is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. His research interests include social and educational inequalities, comparative education policies and reforms, and cross-border policy diffusion with a particular (but not exclusive) focus on emerging and developing economies. Mobarak also serves as an Associate Editor for European Societies and as an editorial board member of the British Journal of Sociology of Education.

Li La

Li La is Research Assistant Professor in Politics and Public Administration at Research Hub on Institutions of China, Faculty of Social Sciences, the University of Hong Kong. His research interests include propaganda state, state theory, political culture, ideology, and China study. His published works are seen on Perspectives on Politics, Governance, Journal of Contemporary China, Third World Quarterly, and The Pacific Review.

Blake Miller

Blake Miller is an Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science in the Department of Methodology and an affiliate at the Data Science Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and Scientific Computing from the University of Michigan. He specializes in computational methods and comparative politics. Substantively, He focuses on Chinese politics, LGBT politics, and social media politics. His methods research involves applied machine learning, quantitative text analysis, and fairness and bias in AI.

Tamer Qarmout

Dr. Tamer Qarmout is an Associate Professor of Public Policy and the former Program Head of the Public Administration Graduate Programs at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. Before entering academia, Dr. Qarmout held various management positions with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). His research focuses on public policy analysis and formulation, institutional reform, public-private partnerships, foreign aid, and conflict resolution. Dr. Qarmout serves on the Programme and Research Advisory Committee (PRAC) for the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS), where he also chairs the working group on “Public Administration in Conflict-Affected and Fragile Situations.”

Haoqi Qian

Dr. Haoqi Qian is an Associate Professor from Institute for Global Public Policy, Fudan University. He also serves as assistant director at MOE Laboratory for National Development and Intelligent Governance, and assistant director at Shanghai Institute for Energy and Carbon Neutrality Strategy. His research interests are energy and environmental governance, policy simulation and evaluation, social economic analysis with big data. His research articles appear in world leading journals including Nature Sustainability, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Climate Policy as well as in Chinese leading journals including Social Sciences in China (《中国社会科学》), Economic Research Journal (《经济研究》).

 Jess Reia

Jess Reia is an Assistant Professor of Data Science at the University of Virginia, a Visiting Scholar at Fudan University, and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington, D.C. Before joining UVA, Reia was appointed Mellon Postdoctoral Researcher at McGill University and BMO Fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal in Canada. Reia held a two-year mandate in the night council in Montreal, providing guidance on data collection and open data practices for the nighttime economy. From 2011 to 2019, Reia worked at the Center for Technology & Society at FGV Law School in Rio de Janeiro, leading projects on technology policy and urban governance in Latin America and BRICS.

Danuvas Sagarik

Danuvas Sagarik is an Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor at Graduate School of Public Administration (GSPA), National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA) Thailand. Currently, he also serves as a Board Member of the Education Council, Ministry of Education of the Thai government. He is also a Director of Development, Administrator in Digital era program, short course training program for executives at NIDA. He has been teaching courses in digital economy, digital transformation, and economic policies.

Bo WEN

Bo WEN is an Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Government and Public Administration at the University of Macau (UM), where he also serves as Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Director of the Doctor of Public Administration (DPA) program. Wen’s research expertise lies in public human resource management, organizational theory and behaviour, institutional analysis, policy implementation, regulatory governance, and computer-mediated communication. His work has been featured in leading journals such as Public Administration Review, Public Management Review, Review of Public Personnel Administration, The China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, and The American Review of Public Administration, among others. He is the recipient of the 2024 William E. Mosher and Frederick C. Mosher Award from the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), the 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award from Public Administration, and the 2022 New Researcher Award from CityU.

Yuxi Zhang

Yuxi Zhang is an Assistant Professor in Health Policy and Systems at the UCL Global Business School for Health. She also holds the position of Research Associate at the Oxford University Blavatnik School of Government. Dr. Zhang’s research focuses on the challenges faced by countries pursuing universal health coverage in the Global South, and policy innovations aimed at creating more equitable and human-centred health systems. Her research has received support from the UKRI Strategic Priorities Policy Engagement Fund. The research outputs have been published in respected journals, including Governance, PLoS One, Nature Scientific Data, Royal Society Interface, and various other places.