Brian Wong

Dr. Brian Wong is a HKU-100 Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. His research examines the ethics and dynamics of authoritarian regimes and their foreign policies, historical and colonial injustices, and the intersection of geopolitics, political and moral philosophy, and technology. At HKU, he serves as a Fellow at the Centre on Contemporary China and the World, sits on the Steering Committee for the Hong Kong Ethics Lab, and advises the Interdisciplinary Dynamics: Ethics, AI, and Society at the Institute of Data Science. He also serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Inquiry, having presented and written on issues of public philosophy for the Journal of Practical Ethics, the American Philosophical Association, and the Royal Institute of Philosophy.

As a seasoned geopolitical strategist, Brian briefs prominent MNCs, hedge funds, family offices, and investors on macro risks in the Global South. Brian currently serves as a Non-resident Honorary Fellow at the Center for China Analysis, Asia Society, as well as a Fellow and Advisor on Strategy at the Oxford Global Society, an independent Oxford-based think-tank. He previously served as a Founding Fellow and then Board Member of Governance Partners Yangon (Asia) and the Founding Secretary of a youth thinktank based in Hong Kong.

As a columnist at the Hong Kong Economic Journal, Brian contributes regularly to publications such as TIME, Foreign Policy, Aeon, Financial Times, Diplomat, Fortune, SCMP, Nikkei, Japan Times, the US-Asia Law Institute, E-IR, Institute of Art and Ideas, USCN Perception Monitor, Neican, and The Hindu, Brian's comments have been featured by the BBC, CNBC, The Atlantic, Nikkei, Al-Jazeera, and POLITICO.

A Rhodes Scholar (2020) and Kwok Scholar, Brian holds a DPhil in Politics from Balliol College; MPhil in Political Theory (Distinction) from Wolfson College, and an MA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (Double First Class, 9th out of 240) from Pembroke College, University of Oxford. Brian has taught modules in politics to students at Oxford and Stanford Universities.

As the Founding Editor-in-Chief and Board Chairman of the Oxford Political Review, Brian sits on the Advisory Board for Oxford's largest student publication and served on the Governing Body of the Oxford Union. He coached Eton College's debate programme for 4 years and was the first Hong Kong-born Chinese to have advanced to the open semifinals of the World Universities Debating Championships (2020). He sits on the Governing Body of the Hong Kong Debate and Speech Community.