Chris Khatouki is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Economy in the School of Social Sciences at UNSW Sydney. He holds a Graduate Fellowship with the Korea Foundation (2022-2024) and was recently a Visiting Scholar at the Ewha Graduate School of International Studies (2023). Chris’s academic research explores the contentious dynamics of economic governance in the Indo-Pacific region. Topics include: geoeconomic competition, statecraft and economic policy, historical developmentalism, state-labour and state-society relations. In 2023, Chris was recognised as a Euan Crone Asia Awareness Scholar by the Australian Institute of International Affairs. In 2022, he was also recognised as an Emerging Leader and Policy Specialist by the National Committee on American Foreign Policy. His prior roles include being a Research and Program Associate at Asia Society Australia (2021 – 2023), Executive Councillor at the Australian Institute of International Affairs, NSW (2018 – 2022), and Guest Instructor at the Gyeongsangnam-do Office of Education, South Korea (2020-2022). He holds a First-Class Honours Degree in International Relations from the University of Wollongong, where he was awarded the University Medal. His writings on international affairs regularly feature on a number of global publications including the South China Morning Post, The Diplomat, Australian Outlook, Asia Society Policy Institute and KoreaPro.