On May 22nd, Professor Emma McCoy, Vice-President of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), led a delegation to visit Fudan University.

In the morning, Vice-President Zhimin Chen of Fudan University received the LSE delegation. VP Chen highly praised the cooperation between the two universities in areas of public policy, media and communication, and economics and finance, and proposed key areas of further collaboration. He congratulated on the start of the Fudan-LSE Year Abroad Program that hosts LSE undergraduate students at Fudan University. Professor Emma McCoy expressed gratitude for Fudan University's strong support for the collaboration between the two institutions. She hoped to enhance the strategic partnership under the LSE 2030 Strategy Framework and looked forward to developing more innovative cooperative projects. The two VPs held a ceremony for exchanging the agreements on the Fudan-LSE Year Abroad Program.

In the afternoon, Professor Emma McCoy, Professor Paul Kelly, and Dr. Brendan Smith visited the LSE-Fudan Research Center for Global Public Policy (the LSE-Fudan Centre) and the Fudan Institute for Global Public Policy. Professor Yijia Jing briefly reported the progress of the LSE-Fudan Centre and its latest developments. After that, Professor Paul Kelly delivered a lecture titled “Liberal political theory after populism – the challenge to the liberal order”, which was the 43rd lecture of the Fudan-LSE Lecture Series.

Members of the LSE delegation included Prof Emma McCoy, Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Education); Professor Paul Kelly, Head of the Department of Government; Dr. Brendan Smith, Director of East Asia and Global Academic Engagement; Dr. Neil McLean, Director of the Language Centre; and Catherine Xiang, East Asia Languages Coordinator. Fudan participants included Prof. Zhimin Chen, VP of Fudan; Professor Li’an Lu, Director of the Office of Global Partnerships; Professor Yijia Jing, Dean of Institute for Global Public Policy; Professor JianboLuo, Dean of School of International Cultural Exchange; Professor Li Chen, Associate Dean of the Law School; Ms. Lihua Xu, Director of the Office of Foreign Affairs at the School of Management, and Ms. Ying Wang, Head of the International Exchange Section of the Office of International Cooperation.