December 2017

Mimi Zou is the inaugural Fangda Fellow in Chinese Commercial Law at the University of Oxford. She obtained her Doctor of Philosophy in Law and Bachelor of Civil Law degrees from the University of Oxford and graduated with first class honors degrees in Law, Economics, and Social Sciences (University Medal) from the University of Sydney. Zou is a qualified solicitor in England and Wales and lawyer in New South Wales, Australia.

Prior to her current appointment, Zou was the R. Randle Edwards Fellow at Columbia Law School (2017); Assistant Professor of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2014-2017); Junior Dean at St John’s College, Oxford (2011-2014); Senior Researcher at Utrecht University (2010); and Senior Tutor at the University of Sydney Business School (2008-2009). She has also taught and researched at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, and the Australian National University.

Zou’s research has won international awards, been cited in an Australian appellate court and several parliamentary inquiries, and been covered by international media outlets such as The New York Times, BBC, The Guardian, Reuters, China Daily, and South China Morning Post. She is an editor of the Business and Human Rights Journal and the Hong Kong Law Journal.

She has worked in corporate law at King & Wood Mallesons and Linklaters in Sydney, Hong Kong, and London, as well as in a number of international organizations, government departments, and financial institutions in the Asia-Pacific and Europe for over 15 years. In 2016, the Asia Society named Mimi as an Asia 21 Young Leader, which recognizes the accomplishments of rising change-makers in the region. She was a former finalist in the Young Australian of the Year Awards.

Yu Zheng is a Senior Lecturer in Asian Business and International Human Resource Management at the School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London. Educated at Peking University (B.A. in Japanese Studies; B.Eco. in Economics) and the National University of Singapore (M.A. in Japanese Studies), Zheng received her Ph.D. (London) in 2010. Zheng’s research focuses on work organization and employment relations in multinational firms, particularly those from China and Japan. Her first research monograph explores changes in workplaces brought about by the increasing influence of foreign investment in China. She has also written publications in Work, Employment and Society, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, Asia Pacific Journal of Management Studies, and other journals. In a current research project, Zheng investigates the employment practices adopted by Chinese multinational firms to manage expatriation, overseas work forces, and union relations. She is a committee member of the Euro-Asia Management Studies Association, and has written for the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) on issues related to Chinese foreign direct investment in Europe.