Hannah Elyse Sworn

Areas of Expertise

International Political Economy, Regulation, Intellectual Property, US-China Relations

Background

Major - International Relations

Minor - Research Methods

Hannah is a PhD student interested in the politics of global economic regulation and how small states engage with the regulatory preferences of great powers. She is particularly interested in pharmaceutical intellectual property regulations; the relationship between regulation, political legitimacy, and development in authoritarian states; and the role of mega-regional trade agreements in regulatory politics. She is also interested in cross-strait relations and alliance behavior.

She received an MSc in International Relations from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and a Bachelor of Arts from Monash University.