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Andy Mok

Topic

Geopolitics

Job Title

Senior Research Fellow | CGTN commentator | Founder

Company

Center for China and Globalisation | CGTN | Red Pagoda Resources

Location

Beijing, China

Language

English, Mandarin

Why?

Andy Mok is a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for China and Globalization where he focuses on technology and its impact on great power relations. His current research interests include how advances in technology affect national sovereignty such as challenges posed by cyber security threats, concentration of corporate power, norms around freedom of expression and other issues related to developing policies for effective digital governance at the national and supra-national levels.

Speaking Topics

  • The future of China-US relations

  • Technology and its impact on great power relations

  • China in the global arena

  • Belt One Road (BRI)

Expert Profile

Andy earned his stripes in Greater China as an investor, entrepreneur and policy analyst. He was one of the first investment professionals to join Morningside Ventures in the early 1990s where he helped formulate the group’s investment strategy and played a key role in the post-investment management of portfolio companies in health care, media and education. Subsequently, he joined the RAND Corp where, under the leadership of Zalmay Khalilzad (former US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq and the UN), he helped research and publish the influential and widely cited monograph “The United States and a Rising China: Strategic and Military Implications”.
Andy is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for China and Globalization (CCG), ranked as one of the top 100 think tanks in the world by the Think Tank and Civil Societies Program at the Lauder Institute of the University of Pennsylvania. At CCG he concentrates on technology and its impact on great power relations and the rise and fall of empires.