Associate Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Science at HKUST (2006–08, 2011–13). Zweig holds extensive professional experience in his field. Between 2008 and 2012, he served as the Emeritus President and President of the Hong Kong Political Science Association. Research Zweig has authored numerous publications. For many years he was a Contributing Writer to the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. His research works span the areas of Chinese politics, political risk, China's domestic and international political economy, its ‘resource diplomacy,’ reverse migration of diasporic talent (including India and Turkey), China's energy policy, China's foreign policy with a particular focus on its ties to East Asia and the United States, and Hong Kong-Mainland Relations. China's talent migration Zweig has conducted research on reverse migration in China and is most known for his investigations into China's efforts and strategies for reversing the brain drain and attracting and retaining high-quality talent from abroad. The dominant perspective is that by enhancing their human capital through their time abroad, and filling in the ‘shortages’ in science, technology, R&D and education, returnees can earn ‘economic rents’ in the domestic political economy and rewards from the state that wants their knowledge to enhance China's growth and development. To assess this phenomenon, he has interviewed and surveyed mainlanders who have chosen to stay abroad and conducted a number of surveys of returnees since 1991–92 to advance our understanding of this issue. Focusing on mitigating the effects of brain drain, he showed that domestic reforms and institutional change play a significant role in the promotion of the reverse migration of high-level talent to China. One of his research studies illustrated that universities with a reformed institutional culture were able to attract higher-quality talent as compared to others. In one of his highly cited papers, Can China bring back the best? The Communist Party organizes China's search for talent, he investigated the "1000 Talents" plan initiated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), finding that despite the CCP's best efforts, China faced great difficulties in attracting back the best Chinese scientists and academics working abroad. He has also addressed the factors that influence Chinese students' decisions about going back to China. According to his research, technology transfer that can address China's technological and economic challenges, pulls returnees home, and the returnees who bring new technology to China gain from it. His research also outlined the various initiatives