Tabitha Grace Mallory

CEO

Tabitha Grace Mallory (马碧珊) is Founder and CEO of the China Ocean Institute and Affiliate Professor of the University of Washington Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. Dr. Mallory specializes in Chinese foreign and environmental policy. She is currently conducting research on China and global ocean governance and has published work on China’s fisheries and oceans policy. Dr. Mallory has consulted for organizations such as the United Nations Foundation, the World Wildlife Fund, the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the Packard Foundation. She previously served as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Princeton–Harvard China and the World Program, and has also worked for The National Bureau of Asian Research and for the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC).

Dr. Mallory holds a Ph.D. (with distinction) and an M.A. in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a certificate in Chinese Studies from the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Washington with a B.A. in international studies and Mandarin Chinese.

Dr. Mallory serves on the board of directors of the China Club of Seattle and is a member of the Washington State China Relations Council. She is a member of the National Committee on U.S.–China Relations, and a fellow in the NCUSCR Public Intellectuals Program. She is also a non-resident fellow at the China Africa Research Initiative (CARI) at Johns Hopkins SAIS.

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

  • T.G. Mallory, A. Chubb and S. Lau, “China’s ocean culture and consciousness: Constructing a maritime great power narrative, Marine Policy, Vol. 144, 2022.
  • With Michael Fabinyi, et al., “China’s Blue Economy: A State Project of Modernisation,” The Journal of Environment & Development, Vol. 30, No. 2, June 2021, pp. 127–148.
  • With Beatrice Crona, et al., “China at a Crossroads: An Analysis of China’s Changing Seafood Production and Consumption,” One Earth, Vol. 3, No. 1, July 2020, pp. 32–44, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.06.013.
  • With Rashid Sumaila, et al., “A Global Dataset on Subsidies to the Fisheries Sector,” Data in Brief, Vol. 27, December 2019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.104706.
  • With Rashid Sumaila, et al., “Updated Estimates and Analysis of Global Fisheries Subsidies,” Marine Policy, Vol. 109, November 2019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2019.103695.
  • “Fisheries Subsidies in China: Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment of Policy Coherence and Effectiveness,” Marine Policy, Vol. 68, 2016, pp. 74–82.
  • “Preparing for the Ocean Century: China’s Changing Political Institutions for Ocean Governance and Maritime Development,” Issues and Studies, Vol. 51, No. 2, June 2015, pp. 111–138.
  • “Fisheries in East Asia: Political, Economic and Security Challenges” in Harris, Paul and Lang, Graeme, eds., East Asia Environmental Handbook, Hong Kong: Routledge, July 2014.
  • “China in Distant Water Fisheries: Evolving Policies and Implications,” Marine Policy, Vol. 38, March 2013, pp. 99–108.

NON-PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

  • “The Emperor Is Wearing No Clothes: Beyond Hydrocarbons in the South China Sea,” Reports, Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada, October 2022, https://www.asiapacific.ca/publication/beyond-hydrocarbons-in-the-south-china.
  • With Gregory Poling et al., Pulling Back the Curtain on China’s Maritime Militia, Washington, D.C.: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2021, 79pp, https://amti.csis.org/pulling-back-the-curtain-on-chinas-maritime-militia/.
  • With Ian Ralby, “Evolution of the Fleet: A Closer Look at the Chinese Fishing Vessels off the Galapagos,” Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC), 19 October 2020,
    http://cimsec.org/evolution-of-the-fleet-a-closer-look-at-the-chinese-fishing-vessels-off-the-galapagos/46116.
  • With Edward Allison, et al., “The Human Relationship with Our Ocean Planet,” High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy Blue Paper Series, 2020, https://oceanpanel.org/blue-papers/HumanRelationshipwithOurOceanPlanet.
  • “Fishing for Sustainability: China’s New Metered Approach to Global Fishing,” Policy Forum, 19 December 2017, https://www.policyforum.net/fishing-for-sustainability/.
  • “Chinese Distant Water Fishing Activities,” in Trade in Fishing Services: Emerging Perspectives on Foreign Fishing Arrangements, Environment and Natural Resources Global Practice Discussion Paper #01, Washington, DC: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank), 2014, pp. 117–128.
  • “China’s Fisheries Management Policy: An Interview with Tabitha Mallory,” SAIS Review of International Affairs, Vol. 33, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2013, pp. 85–91.
  • “China as a Distant Water Fishing Nation,” Written Testimony, Washington, DC: U.S.–China Economic and Security Review Commission, January 26, 2012.
  • “The Sea’s Harvest: China and Global Fisheries,” SAISPHERE: Growth Ahead for Global Agriculture, Washington, DC: Johns Hopkins SAIS, 2011.
  • Congressional–Executive Commission on China, Annual Report, “Population Planning,” and “Institutions of Democratic Governance,” 2007, pp. 108–111 and 143–148.