Lisheng Dong received his Bachelor of Art in English Language and Literature from Zhejiang University in 1982, Master of Law in English News Reporting and Writing from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1985 and PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the University of Antwerp, Belgium in 1992. He is Professor of Asian Politics at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia. From June 2015 to May 2017, he was Marie Curie Professorial Fellow at the School of Social and Political Sciences in the University of Glasgow, the United Kingdom. He is Professor Emeritus of the Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China. He has published 20 books and 54 referred articles and contributed to 20 books. He was the 2012 co-recipient of the Pierre de Celles Award of the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration. His recent monograph is titled Public Administration Theories: Instrumental and Value Rationalities. He is the co-editor of Urban Mobilization and the New Media in Contemporary China and China and the European Union. He has published in Public Administration Review, American Review of Public Administration, International Public Management Journal, International Review of Administrative Sciences and Journal of Contemporary China. He has visited numerous universities and research institutions in five continents and received grants for research from many international and national funders such as the UNDP and the European Commission as well as American, Danish, French, German, Norwegian national science foundations or development agencies.