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Dr. Alice de Jonge is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Business Law and Taxation at Monash Business School, Monash University. She joined the Department of Banking and Finance in 1992 as an Assistant Lecturer, was promoted to Lecturer in 1995, and continues as Senior Lecturer, teaching postgraduate units in international trade law, international law and policy, globalisation of law and development in Asia, and comparative business law in Asia. By 1995, she had designed and established the faculty's Graduate Certificate in Asian Business and its Asian Business Law teaching unit. She holds an SJD in Law from the University of Melbourne, awarded on 1 December 2008, with her doctoral thesis focused on Corporate Governance and China's H-share market. De Jonge has extensive Asian experience, including living and studying in Shanghai at Fudan University, serving as a visiting scholar at Nanjing University, and speaking Mandarin. In 1998, she worked for two months as an investigative lawyer for the Ombudsman Commission of Papua New Guinea, provided written advice for the Central and East European Law Initiative of the American Bar Association, and advised cases before the Refugee Review Tribunal. She has delivered AusAid-funded international trade law short-courses for government officials from Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Burma.
Her research interests encompass corporate governance in Asia, cross-border corporate governance issues in China and Hong Kong, women directors in China and India, international law applicable to transnational corporations, sovereign bankruptcy, data governance, regulation of AI systems including smart cities, and China's social credit system. Key publications include the book Transnational Corporations and International Law: Accountability in the Global Business Environment (2011), Corporate Governance and China’s H-Share Market (2008), and articles such as 'The Glass Ceiling that Refuses to Break: Women Directors on the Boards of Listed Firms in China and India' (2014, 96 citations), 'Corporate Social Responsibility through a Feminist Lens: Domestic Violence and the Workplace in the 21st Century' (2018, 69 citations), 'Perspectives on the Emerging Role of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank' (2017, 64 citations), and 'Data Privacy in China and Europe: Individual, Collective, Subjective, and Objective Perspectives' (2024). De Jonge received the Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2008 and the LawAsia Research Award in 1998, along with several travelling scholarships and research grants. She directs the Asia-Pacific Regulation Research Group and has contributed expert media commentary on Australia-China relations, Chinese economic policies, and transparency issues. Her work aligns with UN Sustainable Development Goals including gender equality, decent work, reduced inequalities, and sustainable cities.