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. She is a non-resident fellow at Brookings Institution, the Wilson Center, and the National Committee on US-China Relations. Her research examines civil society, popular contention, state control, and diaspora politics, with a focus on China. She is author of the award-winning book “Mobilizing Without the Masses: Control and Contention in China” (Cambridge, 2018). Dr. Fu regularly comments on Chinese politics in international media including BBC, Bloomberg, CBC, CNN, Economist, Financial Times, and The New York Times, among others. She was host of the TVO documentary series “China Here and Now” and POLITICO China Watcher. Dr. Fu received her doctorate in Politics form Oxford University, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar and her BA from the University of Minnesota. She has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College and previously served as national co-secretary for the Rhodes Scholarship in the China constituency.