Educational Qualifications

2015
Ph.D., Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2009
B.A. (First Class Honours), Political Science, National University of Singapore and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NUS-UNC Joint Degree Programme)


Academic and Professional Experience

2020 - Present
Senior Lecturer, School of Business, Singapore University of Social Sciences

2016 - 2019
Lecturer, School of Business, Singapore University of Social Sciences

2015 - 2016
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Global Production Networks Centre and Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore 


Awards and Honours

2025 – 2027         
SUSS Teaching Awardee Honour Roll (3-year period)

2024                    
World Scientific Outstanding Handling Editor Award

2024                    
SUSS Excellence in Teaching Award

2023                    
World Scientific Outstanding Journal Reviewer Award

2023                    
SUSS Excellence in Teaching Award

2022                    
SUSS Teaching Excellence Award (Honourable Mention)

2020                    
SUSS Teaching Excellence Award (Shortlisted, Dean’s Nomination)

2015 – 2016         
NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship

2014                    
UNC George Hartman Summer Research Fellowship

2013                    
American Political Science Association Travel Grant

2013                    
Political Networks Conference Fellowship

2013                    
UNC Whit Ayres Grant

2010 – 2015         
UNC Graduate Fellowship (Full Funding for PhD Programme)

Selected Publications

  • Pan, Z. 2021. “Networks of International Relations, Structural Power, and China’s Belt and Road Initiative”. China and the World: Ancient and Modern Silk Road. 4(1): 1-32.
  • Pan, Z. 2019. “Strategic Linkages: China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Power Capture through Global Value Chains”. In China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Understanding the Dynamics of a Great Transformation, ed. Y.W. Chay, T. Menkhoff and L. Low. World Scientific: Singapore.
  • Pan, Z. 2018. “Varieties of Intergovernmental Organization Memberships and Structural Effects in the World Trade Network”. Advances in Complex Systems. 21(2):1-30.
  • Pan, Z. 2018. “Strategies of National Innovation: A Comparative Perspective of Hong Kong and Singapore”. In Hong Kong in 2017: Two Decades of Post-1997 Hong Kong Developments, ed. T.W. Lim and T.Y. Kong. World Scientific: Singapore.
  • Pan, Z. 2016. “State-led Innovation Partnerships: Asian Developmental States within the Triple Helix Paradigm”. European Journal of East Asian Studies. 15(1):108-143.

  • Refereed International Conferences:

  • Pan, Z. 2025. “Embedded Stability: How Foreign Direct Investment Networks Influence International Sanctions and Geopolitical Contestation”. 28th International Political Science Association (IPSA) World Congress of Political Science, Seoul, KOR.
  • Pan, Z. 2025. “Statecraft and Affinity Among Nations – How Complex Interdependencies Shape Global Sanctions Dynamics”. Sunbelt Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), Sorbonne Université, FRA.
  • Pan, Z. 2024. “The Geopolitics and Complexity of Migration: How International Sanctions Shape Global Migration Networks”. Sunbelt Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), online panel.
  • Pan, Z. 2024. “Beyond Dichotomies: Revisiting China’s Belt and Road Initiative from Domestic and International Perspectives”. Global Studies Conference, online panel.
  • Pan, Z. 2023. “The Structure and Political Economy of International Sanctions”. Sunbelt Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), Portland, USA.
  • Pan, Z. 2022. “Deepening Cooperation in a Complex World: How Trade Networks Spill Over to Defence Ties”. Sunbelt Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), Australian National University and Swinburne University of Technology, AUS.
  • Pan, Z. 2022. “Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: The Strategic Rationale of Vaccine Donations”. Presented at two conferences:
    1. Global Studies Conference, University of Athens, GRC.
    2. Sunbelt Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), Australian National University and Swinburne University of Technology, AUS.
  • Pan, Z. 2021. “Digital and Decentralized Global Value Chains: Industry 4.0 and the Advent of Blockchain Technology”. Global Studies Conference, online panel.
  • Pan, Z. 2021. “Networks of Networks: Global Value Chains and the Formation of Defence Cooperation Agreements”. Networks 2021: A Joint Sunbelt and Netsci Conference, online panel.
  • Pan, Z. 2020. “China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the Network Structure of International Relations”. Sunbelt Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), online panel.
  • Pan, Z. 2020. “The International Politics of Trade: The Nexus Between Economic and Security Agreements”. Sunbelt Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), online panel.
  • Pan, Z. 2019. “Uncovering the Complexity of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Global Production Networks, Trade Interdependence and ASEAN’s Development”. Presented at two conferences:
    1. Political Networks Annual Conference, Duke University, USA
    2. Sunbelt Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), Montreal/Quebec, CAN.
  • Pan, Z. 2019. “The Liberal Peace Theory Revisited: Trade Networks, Multilateralism and International Conflict”. Sunbelt Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), Montreal/Quebec, CAN.
  • Pan, Z. 2018. “Trade Interdependence and War: The Politics of Global Production Networks”. Presented at two conferences:
    1. Political Networks Annual Conference, George Mason University, USA
    2. Sunbelt Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), Utrecht, NLD.
  • Pan, Z. 2017. “Economics and War in Asia: The Politics of Global Production Networks”. International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS), Chiang Mai, THA.
  • Pan, Z. 2017. “Varieties of Intergovernmental Organization Memberships and Structural Effects in the World Trade Network”. Sunbelt Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), Beijing, CHN.
  • Pan, Z. 2017. “Economic Crises within Global Value Chains: Examining the Complex Dynamics of the World Trade Network”. Sunbelt Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), Beijing, CHN.
  • Pan, Z. 2016. “The Great Trade Collapse: Shock Amplifiers and Absorbers in Global Value Chains”. European Political Science Association Annual Conference (EPSA), Brussels, BEL.
  • Loidolt, B., Pan, Z. and Gent, S. 2013. “Diasporas, Rebel Internal Organization, and the Fate of Insurgencies”. American Political Science Association Annual Conference (APSA), Chicago, USA.
  • Cranmer, S.J., Foster, L. and Pan, Z. 2013. “Hyper-Dyadic Pressures for Peace: How the Network of Nations Influence Peace and the Conflicts in which they are not Directly Involved”. Presented at two conferences:
    1. International Studies Association Annual Conference (ISA), San Francisco, USA.
    2. Political Networks Conference, Indiana University at Bloomington, USA.

    Local Conference Presentations:

  • Pan, Z. 2017. “The Political Economy of Straits Chinese Business Networks: Examining the Straits Chinese in Colonial Singapore through Economic and Political Lens”. Confucius Institute -- Nanyang Technological University, SGP.

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