Honorary Director Yongnian ZHENG
Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
President, The Institute for International Affairs, Qianhai.
Professor Zheng is Editor of The Asian Review of Political Economy (Springer-Nature), Editor of China Policy Series (Routledge), and Co-editor of Contemporary China Studies Series (World Scientific).
Professor Zheng graduated from Peking University (BA International Relations, 1985; MA in Law, 1988) and Princeton University (MA in Political Science, 1992; PhD, 1995). He was a Lecturer in the Department of Politics and Public Administration of Peking University (1988-1990); Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow of the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore (1997-2005); Professor and Research Director of the China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham (2005-2008); Professor and Director of the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore (2008-2020). He was a Fellow of the US Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Foundation (1995-1997) and a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow (1998-2000).
Professor Zheng’s main research interests are international relations, China’s foreign policy, Sino-US relations, China’s domestic transformation and its external relations. He has authored and edited some one hundred books, including ten monographs in English. He has published numerous research papers in academic journals.
Director Sen GONG
Dr. Sen GONG is a leading scholar at Zhejiang University, a Professor and a supervizer for PhD candidates in social policy at the School of Public Affairs. He is also the Director of the Centre for International Studies on Development and Governance at Zhejiang and Zhejiang University, a Deputy Editor-in-chief of Asian Review of Political Economy, a member of the Council of the Institute for International Affairs at Qianhai Guangdong, and the Chairman of the Central Committee for Social and Legal Affairs of China Association for Promoting Democracy.
Dr. Gong had been a member of the United Nations Committee for Development Policy for 3 years, a member of the Expert Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security for 10 years, a member of the Expert Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Civil Affairs for 5 years, a member of the Special Committee on the Prevention and Treatment of Chronic Diseases of the Ministry of Health for 4 years. Before his current posts, he had successively served as Director-General of the International Cooperation Bureau (as well as the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Office) of the Development Research Centre of the State Council (DRC), Executive Vice President of the Center for International Knowledge on Development affiliated with DRC, Director-General of the DRC Institute for Human Resources and Public Administration and Deputy Director-General of the DRC Social Development Research Department. Dr. Gong had been a senior research fellow at DRC for 13 years, and received the special government allowance for experts from the State Council in 2012. Before joining DRC, Dr. Gong was the Director of the Research Office of the Institute of Social Insurance at the Ministry of Labor and Social Security; the principal investigator of the research group of Rural Social Old-age Insurance Office at the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Dr. Gong has chaired more than 40 national and international cooperation projects and was honored with more than 10 research awards at ministerial and national level. He has published more than 10 books including Better Use of Social Policy and Governance for Healthy Social Order, An International Comparison of Welfare Regimes and Social Policies, Social Policies for Both People’s Livelihood and Inclusive Growth. He has got nearly 100 papers published in important journals such as Social Sciences in China (English Edition) and Sociological Studies. In his works, more than 30 policy papers were highly valued by the Chinese Government.
Dr. Gong’s research interests include social policies such as social security, health care and employment, as well as international development cooperation and sustainable development.
Associate Director Jianghong ZHOU
Prof. Zhou Jianghong, born in Zhejiang province, received his bachelor and master degrees from Lanzhou University and doctoral degree from Kobe University in Japan. He once worked in Xiamen University and now serves as the dean of Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences，Zhejiang University.
He has published over 40 papers, such as Social Sciences in China, Chinese Journal of Law etc. Representative papers are Damages for the Arbitrary Termination of the Entrustment Contract (Chinese Journal of Law, 2017),The Legal Effect of the Lease Rule cannot be Broken by the Sale and Purchase -- on the Premise of the Contract Status Bearing Model (Chinese Journal of Law, 2014),The Reconstruction of Buildings with Condominium Ownership after Disasters (Chinese Social Science, 2008) and Difficulties and Solutions for the Parallel Payment of Tort Compensation and Social Insurance (Chinese Social Science, 2011) etc.
