Ying Zhu
Director
Australian Centre for Asian Business
University of South Australia Business School
Australia
Biography
Australian Centre for Asian Business director Professor Ying Zhu was born in Beijing and graduated from Peking University with a Bachelor of International Economics. He then worked as an economist at Shenzhen Special Economic Zone for four years. He did his PhD thesis on the ‘role of export processing zones in East Asian development’, focusing on South Korea, Taiwan, China and Thailand, at Melbourne University between 1988 and 1992. After completing his PhD he worked at Victoria University and Melbourne University for 17 years. He was Director of the Masters of Human Resource Management at Melbourne University before joining UniSA as Centre Director on 1 February 2011. He has been a visiting scholar at the International Labour Organization, the University Cambridge and the World Bank.
Research Interest
His research interests include international human resource management, employment relations in Asia, labour law and regulations in Asia, and economic development in Asia