Ruona Qi (Tsaruun)

PhD student, Duke Law School

Ruona Qi (Tsaruun) is a Doctoral student at Duke Law School. Her research focuses on the intersection of environmental governance, ethnic minority studies, and land management in Inner Mongolia, China, exploring how state policies and local strategies shape environmental and territorial outcomes. Ruona is fluent in Mongolian, Mandarin and English. She has conducted extensive field research in ethnic minority regions across China since 2014, worked with UNESCO, and is a member of the IUCN CEC Commission.