Courtney J. Fung is an associate professor in the discipline of security studies in the School of International Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. She is concurrently a non-resident fellow at London School of Economics IDEAS; Harvard University's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; the Asia Society Australia, and at the Lowy Institute. Her research focuses on how rising powers address the norms and provisions for global governance and international security, with a primary focus on China within the U.N. system. Her book on the topic is "China and Intervention at the UN Security Council: Reconciling Status" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019). She holds a PhD in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. While at the Paul Tsai China Center, she will focus her research on China's evolving role in global governance.