Dr Jennifer Hsu is the author of the Lowy Institute’s 2023 Being Chinese in Australia: Public Opinion in Chinese Communities. She is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Social Policy and Research Centre at the University of New South Wales and most recently, Research Fellow and Project Director of the Multiculturalism, Identity and Influence Project at the Lowy Institute. After completing her PhD at the University of Cambridge in Development Studies, she researched and taught in development studies, political science and sociology in universities in North America and the UK. Her research expertise broadly covers China’s state-society relations, state–NGO relations, civil society, the internationalisation of Chinese NGOs, Australia–China relations and diaspora studies and she has published widely in these areas. Jennifer is a regular contributor to Australian and international media outlets.