Fengshi Wu is an Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. She is a world-leading scholar in environmental politics, state-society relations, and global governance with the empirical focus on the Asia Pacific region (esp. East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia). Her recent research highlights the global transformation of the energy system, which has been rapidly accelerated by both geopolitics and climate change.

A graduate of the University of Maryland (PhD) and Beijing University (BA), she joined UNSW in 2019. Currently, she is the inaugural Series Editor of Environment and Society in Asia (Amsterdam University Press), an Executive of the Australasian Association of Euro-Asian Studies, and a Board member of the International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR). Her academic works have appeared in Environmental Politics, the China Journal, VOLUNTAS, China Quarterly, Global Environmental Politics, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, Journal of Contemporary China and International Studies Quarterly. She edited the book China’s Global Conquest for Resources (Routledge, 2017) on Chinese overseas investment in and acquisition of natural resources.

Before UNSW, she held academic positions at the University of Melbourne, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is a recipient of research grants from leading higher education authorities in the United States, Hong Kong SAR, and Singapore. She was elected as one of the Graduate Fellows of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences for her PhD work, which documented transnational activism and policy advocacy in environmental protection and public health. A/Prof. Wu was a Visiting Professor at the Harvard-Yenching Institute (2008-2009) and the Sciences Po, Paris (2024).