Lee Shau Kee Foundation Chair Professor of Political Science

Prof Shalendra SHARMA

Associate Vice-President (Academic Quality Assurance and Internationalisation)
Programme Director, Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Global Liberal Arts Programme

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Professor Sharma is the Lee Shau Kee Foundation Chair Professor of Political Science. He is the author of Prosperity with Inequality: A Comparative Political Economy of the United States, China, and India (New York: Cambridge University Press 2018); Global Financial Contagion: The Great Recession and the World Economy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013); China and India in the Age of Globalization (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), among other works.

2021.  2 February – “Post-COVID-19 World: Experience of India and China”. A joint research workshop and webinar series on China and India studies, hosted by Lingnan University (Hong Kong) and FLAME University (India).

2020.  21–22 July – Presentation at International Online Conference on “COVID-19: Emergence and Resurgence of Communicable Diseases from Social Sciences Perspectives”, organised by the University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya (USTM), India.

2019.  6 December – Keynote address at conference on “US–China Trade War, Deglobalization, and International Business”, organised by Lingnan University and Jose Rizal University, Cebu, the Philippines.

2019.  30 November – Panel member on “University Teaching and Faculty Development” at the International Conference for Teaching and Learning at Peking University, organised by the Center for Excellent Teaching and Learning, Peking University, and the Chinese Educational Technology Association in Higher Education, Beijing, PRC.

Research interests: international relations; international political economy; globalisation; international organisations; American politics and post-war U.S. foreign policy; comparative politics of Asia; economics, politics, and society in Asia with a focus on South Asia

Research output: https://scholars.ln.edu.hk/en/persons/shalendra-sharma/publications/