Professor Chris Alden teaches International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he is Deputy Head of the Department (PhD and Research). He is also Director of LSE IDEAS and a Research Associate with the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA).

Bingchun Meng is a Professor in the Department for Media and Communications at LSE and the Director of LSE PhD Academy. She is also the Co-Director of LSE-Fudan Global Public Policy Research Centre. Her research interests include gender and the media, political economy of media industries, communication governance, and comparative media studies.

Former French diplomat (in charge of China at the Asian Directorate of the Quai d’Orsay, Cultural Counsellor in Moscow, Ambassador to Tajikistan, Moldova, Eastern Europe and the Black Sea, and co-president of the Minsk group in charge of resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict), Pierre Andrieu teaches geopolitics in several French and foreign universities.

Professor Gregory T. Chin is an Associate Professor of Political Science/Political Economy at York University, Canada, and he specializes on the political economy of international money and development finance, China, Asia, the BRICS, and global governance.

Ziteng Fan is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Global Public Policy, Fudan University. He is also a member of the Emerging Scholar Editorial Board for the journal Global Public Policy and Governance (JCR Q2).

Tim Forsyth is Professor of Environment and Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has lived and worked in Asia for more than five years. He specializes in environmental governance, especially the challenges of integrating local livelihoods into global environmental policy.

Fawaz A. Gerges is a Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science where he also holds the Chair in Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies at LSE. He was the LSE’s inaugural Director of the Middle East Centre from 2010 until 2013.

Daniel Guttman is teacher, lawyer and been a public servant. He was Executive Director of a Presidential Advisory Commission on bioethics, presidentially appointed Commissioner of the Occupational Health and Safety Review Commission, directed Senate investigations of government energy and environmental management, and was UNDP “foreign expert advisor” on China environmental law.

Timothy Hildebrandt is an Associate Professor of Social Policy and Development at the London School of Economics. Trained as a political scientist and Sinologist, his mixed methods research on state-society relations in China, social organization development, political behavior, and social policy has been featured in numerous journals including Development and Change, Democratization, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Civil Society, Review of International Studies, Voluntas, among many o

Dr Mobarak Hossain is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. With a DPhil (PhD) in Social Policy from the University of Oxford, Mobarak was previously a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, where he remains an associate member.

Simona Iammarino is Professor of Applied Economics, Department of Economics & Business, University of Cagliari, Italy; Visiting Professor, Department of Geography & Environment, and member of the Board of the LSE-Cañada Blanch Centre, London School of Economics (LSE), UK.

Søren Harnow Klausen is professor of philosophy at the University of Southern Denmark. He was Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Tübingen 2000-2002, member and later vicechair of the Danish Council for Independent Research 2008-2013, elected member of Science Europe Scientific Advisory Committee 2016-2019 and is currently member of the Icelandic Research Fund Expert Panel.

Meijun Liu serves as an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Global Public Policy, Fudan University. She earned her Doctorate degree in Information Science from the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests span across informetrics, science of science, and Science & Technology policy.

Chunrong Liu is Professor of Political Science at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University. He received his PhD degree in sociology from the City University of Hong Kong in 2005 and has conducted post-doctoral research at Georgetown University.

Professor Alvaro Mendez has over two decades of experience in international relations, with a focus on the Global South, sustainable development, and the dynamics between global powers and emerging economies. He is the Director of the Global South Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a Senior Associate Fellow at LSE IDEAS.

Blake Miller is an Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science in the Methodology Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He received his PhD in Political Science and Scientific Computing from the University of Michigan in 2018 where he was also a graduate research affiliate in the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies.

Keiichi Ogawa, PhD, Professor/Department Chair, Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies at Kobe University. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and an Honorary Professor at Kyrgyz National University, National University of Laos, and the University of Dhaka. He has served at various universities, including as an Affiliate Professor (University of Hawaii at Manoa), Adjunct Professor (George Washington University), and Visiting Professor (University of Tokyo).

Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira is Visiting Chair Professor at IGPP, Fudan University and holds a Ph.D. in Planning from the Environmental Policy and Planning Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is Professor of Climate Governance and Global Development at the University of Manchester (UK) and Professor of Public Administration at FGV, Brazil, with extensive international experience in teaching and research in global environmental change.

Haoqi Qian is an Associate Professor at Institute for Global Public Policy, Fudan University. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Fudan University. His research interests are energy and environmental governance, policy simulation and evaluation, social economic analysis with big data. He has more than ten years experiences in computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling and has developed the Dynamic Regional Economy-Energy-Environment Analysis Model (DREAM) to conduct large-scale policy modelli

Jess Reia is an Assistant Professor of Data Science at the University of Virginia, a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington, D.C., and a Visiting Scholar at IGPP Fudan University. Before joining UVA, Reia was appointed Mellon Postdoctoral Researcher at McGill University and BMO Fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal in Canada. From 2011 to 2019, Reia worked at the Center for Technology & Society at FGV Law School in Rio de Janeiro, lea