Bo Kong

Bo Kong is Assistant Research Professor of the Energy, Resources, and Environment (ERE) program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and he directs the ERE’s research on East Asia. Formerly, he was director of the Schools’ Global Energy and Environment Initiative (GEEI). Prior to GEEI, he served a number of positions in the analytical community, including Energy and Mining Associate at Ayrlie Partners, Chief Energy Economist for ChinaStakes.com, Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Global Dialogue (IGD) in South Africa, Research Fellow at the Center for Global Security of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), and Research Associate at the Shanghai WTO Affairs Consultation Center.

Professor Kong has written widely on Chinese energy policy in both English and Chinese language publications. He sits on the Advisory Board of the Revenue Watch Institute and the Mitigation Board of the Global Network for Climate Solutions of Columbia University’s Earth Institute. He is also a member of the International Editorial Board for the Universiti of Kebangsaan Malaysia’ journal—JEBAT: Malaysian Journal of History, Politics, and Strategic Studies.

Professor Kong received his B.A. in International Trade from Nankai University in Tianjin, China. After graduate studies at the Foreign Affairs University in Beijing and the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing, he earned his M.A. in American Foreign Policy and International Economics and Ph.D. in China Studies and International Energy Policy from SAIS.

Current Research Projects

• China’s civil nuclear energy program and nuclear governance
• U.S.-China nuclear cooperation
• Northeast Asian energy security cooperation

Selected Publications

• “Governing China’s energy in the context of global governance,” Global Policy, Vol. 2, Special Issue, September 2011, pp.51-65.
• China’s International Petroleum Policy (Santa Barbra, California: Praeger Security International, 2010)
• “The Geopolitics of the Myanmar-China Oil and Gas Pipelines,” NBR Special Report #23, pp.55-65 (Seattle, Washington: The National Bureau of Asian Research, September 2010)
• “China’s Energy Decision-Making—Becoming More Like the United States?” Journal of Contemporary China, Vol.18, No.62, November 2009, pp.798-812.
• “China’s Long March toward Energy Security,” Global Dialogue, Vol. 13, Issue 1, March 2008, pp.11-17 and 51-52.

Additional Information

• Bo Kong’s homepage