David Zweig is a Canadian social scientist, academic, and author. He is a Distinguished Visiting professor in the Taipei School of Economics and Political Science at National Tsinghua University, Professor Emeritus at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and for 10 years was an adjunct professor at the National University of Defense Technology. He also serves as a Vice President of the Center for China and Globalization. Zweig has authored four books, including Internationalizing China: Domestic Interests and Global Linkages, China’s Brain Drain to the United States, and Agrarian Radicalism in China, 1968–1981, and has edited seven books, including Globalization and China’s Reforms, and Sino-U.S. Energy Triangles: Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony. His research interests include China's talent migration, reverse brain gain, China's political economy, energy policy, foreign economic policy, China's resource diplomacy, Sino-American relations, China's ties to East Asia, and Hong Kong-Mainland relations. He was the Founding Director, Center on China's Transnational Relations, HKUST, 2004–10 and directed it from 2015 to 2019. Zweig was a Senior Fellow of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (2013–15), a non-resident fellow of the Pacific Council on International Policy, 2006–2009, and President of the Hong Kong Political Science Association, 2008–10. Education Zweig earned a B.A. in political science in 1968 and an M.A. in political science in 1974 from York University in Toronto. He studied in Beijing between 1974 and 1976, earning a degree in Mandarin Chinese from the Beijing Languages Institute and a degree in philosophy from Beijing University. He then earned a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan in 1983 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University for a year. Career Zweig began his academic career as an assistant professor of Political Science at Florida International University in Miami in 1982. Having held that position for two years, he briefly served as an assistant professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo. Later, he was appointed an assistant professor in the The Fletcher School at Tufts University in 1986 and was promoted to an associate professor there in 1991. He moved to Hong Kong in 1996, held an appointment as an associate professor in the Division of Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 1996 until 2002, and subsequently was appointed as a professor. From 2005 until 2019, he was Chair Professor at HKUST, and twice held concurrent appointments as