Bo Ma is an Associate Professor in the School of International Studies and Deputy Director of the China Center for Collaborative Studies of the South China Sea at Nanjing University. He has previously served as a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University’s Australian Centre on China in the World, the Wang Gungwu Visiting Fellow at the ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore, and was a British Chevening Scholar (2019–2020).