Ying Zhu is Professor and Co-Director of the C-EDGE at the University of South Australia. He was born in Beijing and graduated from Peking University with a Bachelor of International Economics in 1984. He worked as an economist at Shenzhen Special Economic Zone in China between 1984 and 1988 and completed his PhD on the role of export processing zones in East Asian development at the University of Melbourne between 1989 and 1992. After that, he worked at Victoria University and Melbourne University for 17 years before joining UniSA in 2011. He has more than 170 publications in the areas of international human resource management, international business, entrepreneurship, economic development and labor laws in Asia.