Gregory Chin is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and Associate Professor of Political Science at York University, Canada. Chin is also a Senior Fellow of the Global Development Policy Center at Boston University. At the Foreign Policy Institute, he works with FPI Executive Director Carla Freeman on FPI SAIS initiatives on global governance and the global order. His research interests are in international and comparative political economy with a focus on China, Asia, BRICS, international money, development finance, and global governance. He is on the International Advisory Board of the journal Review of International Political Economy, and the Editorial Boards of the journals Global Governance and The Journal of East Asian Studies.  He was the Mayling Birney Global Scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science from 2022-2023. 

He has published widely on China's global development finance and international monetary affairs, Asian regionalism, the BRICS, and global governance reform. His most recent project is the book, China and the Global Economic Order, coauthored with Kevin P. Gallagher, and published by Cambridge University Press/Cambridge Elements (2025).  He is finishing a book manuscript on Renminbi internationalization.  

He was a contributing researcher and author for the project of the Asian Development Bank Institute (Tokyo) on the “Political Economy of Asian Regionalism” (2010-2014). He co-led the project on the “BRICS, Asia and International Monetary Reform” (2010-2013), partnered with the Asian Development Bank and Hong Kong Monetary Authority. He contributed to the UNDP-China Development Bank "Joint Report on Harmonizing Investment and Financing Standards Along the Belt and Road" (2019).  

Before joining York University in 2006, Chin was First Secretary (Development) at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing from 2003 to 2006, where he was responsible for liaising with decision-makers in China, government agencies, and key think tanks.  He designed and managed Canada’s foreign aid to China and North Korea, and he liaised with bilateral and multilateral donors, including the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and the special agencies of the United Nations. From 2000 to 2003, he served in Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and the Canadian International Development Agency.