Hong Zhang is an Assistant Professor of International Studies at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington. Her research and teaching focus on global development and China’s role in it. Previously, she was a China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ash Center for Governance and Democratic Innovation, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government (2022–24), and a postdoctoral fellow at the China–Africa Research Initiative, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and the Columbia–Harvard China and the World Program. She obtained her PhD in public policy from George Mason University in 2021.