Instructor Line-up
The International Summer School relies on the strong teaching resources of Fudan University and the LSE, bringing together excellent instructors and courses in the field of public policy at home and abroad. The instructors have diverse academic and professional backgrounds. They are either senior scholars or rising stars in their respective fields, with broad global perspectives and excellent cross-cultural communication skills. They are all committed to creating the best shared learning experience and a starting point for future career development for global students. Students will fully experience the charm and challenges of global governance in small-class interactions with instructors.
Brief Introduction to Instructors
Instructors | Institute | Introduction |
Department of International Relations, LSE | Expert in international politics and China-Africa relations. Deputy head of the department (PhD and research), director of LSE IDEAS. | |
Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs (France) and others | Former French diplomat, geopolitical expert specializing in Russia-China relations. Author of a book on “The Geopolitics of Russian-Chinese relations”. | |
Department of Politics, York University | Expert in BRICS and global governance. Former official of the Government of Canada. Co-author of the book China and the Bretton Woods Order etc. | |
Institute for Global Public Policy, Fudan University | Expert in digital governance and public policy. Published in prestigious Chinese and English peer-reviewed journals, including Sociological Studies (in Chinese), Management World (in Chinese), Public Management Review, etc. | |
Department of International Development, LSE | Dean of the Department of International Development at LSE. Specialist in environmental governance and especially the challenges of integrating local livelihoods into global environmental policy. | |
Department of International Relations, LSE | Expert in international relations, political economy, the Middle East.LSE’s inaugural director of the Middle East Centre. Author of books on the Arab-Israeli conflict and US-Middle East relations. | |
US National Academy of Public Administration | Expert in environmental law and public policy. Former US government advisor, and the fellow of the US National Academy of Public Administration. | |
Department of Social Policy, LSE | Associate head of the Department of Social Policy at LSE. Expert in state-society relations in China. Co-editor of The China Quarterly. | |
Department of Social Policy, LSE | Expert in social and educational inequalities, the sociology of education, comparative education policy, with a special emphasis on emerging and developing economies. | |
Department of Economics and Business, University of Cagliari; Department of Geography and Environment, LSE | Expert in MNCs, economic geography, and regional policy. Once served as the Head of the Department of Geography and Environment at LSE. Co-editor of the Journal of Economic Geography. | |
Department of Philosophy, University of Southern Denmark | Vicechair of the Danish Council for Independent Research (Humanities) 2008-2013, member of Science Europe Scientific Advisory Committee 2016-2019. Research interests include social epistemology, philosophy of education, philosophical psychology, etc. | |
Institute for Global Public Policy, Fudan University | Researcher in international collaboration in S&T and innovation diffusion. Published in top journals like JASIST. Director of the LSE-Fudan Double Master’s Degree Program in Global Social Policy. | |
School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University | Political sociology expert in state-society relations and governance. Managing Director of Fudan-European Centre for China Studies. | |
Global South Unit, LSE | Director of the Global South Unit at LSE, senior associate fellow at LSE IDEAS. Expert in Global South development and international relations. | |
Department of Media and Communications, LSE | Professor in the Department for Media and Communications at LSE, director of LSE PhD Academy, and the co-director of LSE-Fudan Research Centre in Global Public Policy. | |
Department of Methodology, LSE | Expert in computational social science, data science, machine learning and quantitative text analysis. | |
Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University | Education economist with World Bank experience, and ever worked in 30+ countries. | |
FGV, Brazil | Expert on global environmental governance and institutions. The assistant director of the Institute of Advanced Studies of the United Nations University (UNU - IAS) and the editor-in-chief of the Public Administration and Development. | |
Institute for Global Public Policy, Fudan University | Assistant Director of the National Development and Intelligent Governance Laboratory of the Ministry of Education and the Assistant Director of the Shanghai Institute of Energy and Carbon Neutrality Strategy. Director of the LSE-Fudan Double Master’s Degree Program in Global Political Economy. | |
School of Data Science, University of Virginia | Expert in tech policy and privacy, focusing on AI and data ethics. Non-resident fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology in Washington, DC. | |
School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University | Distinguished Professor of the Changjiang Scholars Program of the Ministry of Education in China, Director of the Center for Complex Decision Analysis at Fudan University. Expert in international relations and institutional economics. Vice-presidents (2025-26) of the International Studies Association (ISA) and won the ISA’s “Best Book of the Year” award in 2015. | |
Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University | Researcher on regional development, globalization and China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Author of The Belt, Road and Beyond. | |
Institute for Global Public Policy, Fudan University | Researcher on population, health, and social policy. Director of the PhD Program in Global Public Policy. | |
Economics, Birkbeck, University of London | Researcher on gender, social mobility and public policy. Senior Visiting Fellow at the LSE. Supported by Gates Foundation grants. | |
Global Business School for Health, University College London | Focuses on health policy challenges in the Global South, particularly in research on universal health insurance and health behaviours. | |
School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University | Researcher on international development and globalization. Head of Department of International Politics, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University. |
Course Modules
The 2025 International Summer School offers 25 high-quality courses at the undergraduate level, covering five major modules including “Globalization and China”, “Global Governance”, “International Development and the Global South”, “Global Social Policy”, and “Data Analysis and Research Methods”.
| Module 1: China in the Global Context | 01 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Title | Session | Time Slot | Instructor |
| Chinese Media, Global Contexts: Convergence and Conflicts | Session 1 | Morning | Bingchun Meng |
| International Development and China | Session 1 | Afternoon | Alvaro Mendez & Chris Alden |
| Chinese Digital Governance: Institutions, Policies and Politics | Session 1 | Evening | Ziteng Fan |
| Social Governance and Policy Innovation in Contemporary China | Session 2 | Morning | Timothy Hildebrandt |
| The EU and China: In Search of Common Ground? | Session 1 | Afternoon | Pierre Andrieu |
| Module 2: Global Governance | 02 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Title | Session | Time Slot | Instructor |
| Artificial Intelligence: Navigating Policy, Regulation, and Governance in the Digital Age | Session 1 | Morning | Jess Reia |
| Economics of Global Public Policy | Session 1 | Afternoon | Tinghua Yu |
| Global Environmental Governance | Session 1 | Afternoon | Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira |
| Global Public Policy on Human Resources Development | Session 2 | Morning | Keiichi Ogawa |
| Global Technology Governance and Public Policy | Session 2 | Morning | Daniel Guttman |
| Political Economy of Rising Powers | Session 2 | Morning | Min Ye |
| International Political Economy: The BRICS and the Emerging World Order | Session 2 | Afternoon | Gregory T. Chin |
| Module 3: International Development and the Global South | 03 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Title | Session | Time Slot | Instructor |
| Environment and development policy | Session 1 | Morning | Tim Forsyth |
| Multinational Enterprises, Technological Change & Local Economic Development | Session 1 | Morning | Simona Iammarino |
| Economic Development in the Global South in the Age of Geopolitical Volatility | Session 1 | Evening | Shiping Tang |
| The International Relations of the Middle East | Session 2 | Morning | Fawaz Gerges |
| Globalization and Development | Session 2 | Afternoon | Yu Zheng |
| Module 4: Global Social Policy | 04 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Title | Session | Time Slot | Instructor |
| Social Policy and Development | Session 1 | Afternoon | Xin Ye |
| Ethics and Public Policy | Session 1 | Evening | Soren Harnow Klausen |
| Comparative Education Policy and Inequality | Session 2 | Morning | Mobarak Hossain |
| Wicked Problems of Health Systems in the Global South and Policy Responses | Session 2 | Morning | Yuxi Zhang |
| The Welfare State in Global and Comparative Perspectives | Session 2 | Evening | Chunrong Liu |
| Module 5: Data Analysis and Research Methods | 05 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Title | Session | Time Slot | Instructor |
| Introduction to Python for Social Data Analysis | Session 1 | Morning | Blake Miller |
| Simulation Modelling for Public Policy Analysis | Session 1 | Afternoon | Haoqi Qian |
| Introduction of Frontier Research Methods in Public Policy | Session 2 | Evening | Meijun Liu |
