Kristy Hsu is the Director of the Taiwan ASEAN Studies Center at the Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research (CIER), a leading economic research institute in Taiwan. She also serves as a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at the Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation (TAEF), supervising the Image of Taiwan and Taiwanese Businesses research series, including surveys in Vietnam (2019), Indonesia (2020), Thailand (2021), Singapore (2022), Malaysia (2023), and the Philippines (2024). Her research focuses on Southeast Asian studies, regional economic integration, trade policy, and economic law, with recent interests in cross-strait relations, the “China+1” strategy, economic security, and semiconductor supply chains. Kristy advises on Taiwanese government's external relations, economic/trade policy, FTA strategies, cross-strait economic relations, and regional supply chain issues. She serves as an advisor to various organizations, a consultant for the Council of Taiwanese Chambers of Commerce in Asia, and an independent director at China Steel Chemical Corporation. Kristy holds a J.D. from Soochow University.