Mao Chutian, from Beijing, is pursuing an MPhil in Public Policy at the School of Public Policy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He holds a bachelor's degree from the Communication University of China. He has been active in Model United Nations since high school and has chaired Model UN conferences at several universities. He has interned at several think tanks, including the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) at Tsinghua University. His undergraduate thesis used quantitative methods to examine social-media-driven political mobilization. He has long followed issues of international security and conflict. His current research covers the spread of terrorism, the organizational forms of jihadism, and the geographic clustering of civil wars. At CISS Strategic Youth, he will continue to focus on international security issues such as regional conflicts, civil wars, and non-state armed groups.