Dr. Shona Loong (https://www.shonaloong.com) is the principal investigator for the Ambizione Project Governing the Revolution, based at the Centre for Conflict, Peacebuilding, and Development. Her research focuses on conflict, peacebuilding, and the politics of development in Myanmar’s borderlands. Her work has been published in journals such as Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Political Geography and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

Between 2021 and 2024, Shona was Senior Scientist with the Political Geography Group at the Department of Geography, University of Zurich (UZH). She completed her DPhil in human geography at the University of Oxford in 2021, and previously studied at the National University of Singapore. Shona has also worked in and consulted for organisations outside academia. She was Associate Fellow in Southeast Asian Politics and Foreign Policy at the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) between 2023 and 2024, where she worked on the Myanmar Conflict Map (http://myanmar.iiss.org) and co-published a book, New Answers to Old Questions: Myanmar Before and After the 2021 Coup d’etat (Connelly and Loong 2024).

Dr. Loong strives to do publicly engaged scholarship, based on both rigorous theoretical engagements and long-term relationships in the field, guided by an ethic of care.