Shona Loong is a political geographer focused on conflict, peacebuilding, and the politics of foreign aid in Myanmar and its borderlands. Her work has been published in Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Political Geography and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. With Aaron Connelly, she is also the co-author of the book, New Answers to Old Questions: Myanmar Before and After the 2021 Coup d'etat (Routledge 2024). Outside academia, Dr. Loong has written and worked for think-tanks, non-profits, and international organizations. She received her DPhil at the University of Oxford and studied at the National University of Singapore.