I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and International Affairs at Lingnan University. I study economic democracy and corporate power, and I have a growing interest in the platform economy and algorithmic politics. I am currently working on a book that develops a normative political theory of workplace justice. My research has received the Helen Potter Award from the Association for Social Economics. My article “The Epistemology of Corporate Power” was a finalist for the Journal of Applied Philosophy Paper of the Year Prize for 2025. Also, my research has been awarded the Best Student Paper Award from the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), and was shortlisted for the 2023 ICAS Best Article Prize on Global Hong Kong Studies by the Society for Hong Kong Studies. I hold a PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto in Canada. Before joining Lingnan, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands (2020-21) and a Visiting Researcher in the Normative Orders Research Centre at Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany (2019). I also serve on the editorial boards of three journals: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (a Nature Portfolio journal), PLOS ONE, and SN Social Sciences. (→ More)

Recent Publications

• Kwok, C. (2026). Epistemic injustices in islands of conscious power: Outsourcing and epistemic barriers in claim-making. Journal of Business Ethics.
• Kwok, C., & Li, C. M. (2026). Group agency and egalitarian corporate structure: The epistemic, incentive, and control dimensions. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 43(2), 507-525.
• Kwok, C. (2025). The epistemology of corporate power: The limits of the firm-state analogy. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 42(1), 197-216.