Professor Kong has held positions at the East Asian Institute of the National University of Singapore, the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Germany, and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Switzerland. Moreover, he is also the Vice President of the China Society of International Economic Law and the WTO Law Research Society of China Law Society as well as the Editor-in-Chief of The Chinese Journal of Global Governance.