Dr. Cuiping Zhu is a Deputy Director of Research Institute for Indian Ocean Economies (RIIO), Yunnan University of Finance and Economics (YUFE), Kunming, China. She is an editorial director of "Indian Ocean Economic and Political Review" and "Annual Report on Development of Indian Ocean Region". Prof. Cuiping Zhu focuses on the academic fields such as Indian Ocean Strategy, South Asia Issues and Sino-Indian Ties. In recent years, she has written extensively on Indian Ocean Region such as India’s Enterprise investment and policy issues (2011), Indian Ocean Strategy (2012), Relations between India and China from the perspective of economics (2012), Recognizing Threats, Constructing Threats: The Extension of the U.S-Indian Ocean Strategy(2013), Security in the Indian Ocean and the Sino-Indian "Cooperation Dilemma"(2014). She also published two books named Institutional Analysis on Economic Growth(2010), Indian Ocean and China(2014).
