Bio

Rogelio Leal is a Fellow of International Relations at the Indo-Pacific Studies Center. He previously served as a Research Fellow at the School of Social Sciences and Government and as the Director of the Academic Program in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. Rogelio holds a joint PhD in Political Science and China Studies from King’s College London and the National University of Singapore.

Rogelio has undertaken academic sojourns at the University of Oxford, Peking University, and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and has served as a visiting scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of Miami, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico. His research interests encompass Confucianism, Chinese political thought, ethical governance, global affairs, and the domains of statecraft, security, and diplomacy.

He has received academic and research grants from various organisations, including the International Confucian Association, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People’s Republic of China, the Chinese Association for International Understanding, the Center for Chinese-Mexican Studies, the Puentes Consortium, and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. His professional affiliations include serving as Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Political Science & International Relations, Regional Book Review Editor of the Journal of Chinese Philosophy, Member of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy, and former General Secretary of the Mexican Association of Political Science.