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 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 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. | |
Political Science Department, University of Pennsylvania | Expert in computational social science, data science, machine learning and quantitative text analysis. | |
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 | 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. | |
Social Sciences, University of Helsinki | Social policy transformation, digitalization of public administration, and comparative welfare state studies. Recent research focus is on the role of technology in welfare systems. | |
Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) | Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at LSE, and Head of the LSE Department of Geography and Environment. Previously, he served as Director of the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and Trustee of the Urban Studies Foundation. | |
Social Sciences and Humanities, Aalborg University | Monetary, financial, and macroeconomic policies in developing and emerging economies. He is a member of multiple academic organizations including the Post-Keynesian Economics Society (PKES), the International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE), and the Economics Education Network. | |
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA), University of Michigan | James Orr Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Center for Emerging Democratic Governance at the University of Michigan. He is the editor of the book Democracy and Dictatorship. | |
Department of Political Science, Weinberg College of Arts and Science, Northwestern University | Assistant Professor of Political Science. She is the author of Performative States: Public Oversight and Environmental Governance in China (Cornell University Press, 2022), and is currently working on a book about the historical waves of global environmentalism. |
Course Structure
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
Session
| Module 1: Global Governance & International Relations | 01 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Title | Session | Time Slot | Instructor |
| Chinese Media, Global Contexts: Convergence and Conflicts | Session 1 | Morning | Bingchun Meng |
| The International Relations of the Middle East | Session 1 | Morning | Fawaz Gerges |
| International Development and China | Session 1 | Afternoon | Alvaro Mendez & Chris Alden |
| The EU and China: In Search of Common Ground? | Session 1 | Afternoon | Pierre Andrieu |
| Global Environmental Governance | Session 1 | Evening | Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira |
| Global Technology Governance and Public Policy | Session 2 | Morning | Daniel Guttman |
| Module 2: Public Policy & Social Policy | 02 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Title | Session | Time Slot | Instructor |
| Ethics and Public Policy | Session 1 | Morning | Soren Harnow Klausen |
| Comparative Public Policy | Session 1 | Afternoon | Iza Ding |
| The Welfare State in Global and Comparative Perspective | Session 1 | Evening | Chunrong Liu |
| Economics of Global Public Policy | Session 2 | Morning | Tinghua Yu |
| Social Policy Analysis and Development | Session 2 | Afternoon | Xin Ye |
| Module 3: Digital Governance & Data Science | 03 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Title | Session | Time Slot | Instructor |
| Governing the digital state: public policy and social governance in the 21st century | Session 1 | Morning | Minna van Gerven |
| Introduction to Programming for Social Data Science | Session 1 | Morning | Blake Miller |
| Chinese Digital Governance: Institutions, Policies and Politics | Session 1 | Afternoon | Ziteng Fan |
| Introduction of Frontier Research Methods in Public Policy | Session 2 | Morning | Meijun Liu |
| Module 4: Development, Capitalism & Decolonization Studies | 04 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Title | Session | Time Slot | Instructor |
| Decolonization, Dependency, and Development | Session 1 | Afternoon | Dan Slater |
| International Political Economy: The BRICS and the Emerging World Order | Session 2 | Morning | Gregory T. Chin |
| Remaking China’s Urban Futures: Urban Transformations in a Global Context | Session 2 | Morning | Hyun Bang Shin |
| Development Economics and Geopolitical Economy | Session 2 | Morning | Samuele Bibi |
| Capitalism, Socialism, and Developmental States | Session 2 | Afternoon | Dan Slater |
| Session：Session 2 | 02 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Title | Session | Time Slot | Instructor |
| Introduction of Frontier Research Methods in Public Policy | Session 2 | Morning | Meijun Liu |
| Economics of Global Public Policy | Session 2 | Morning | Tinghua Yu |
| Global Technology Governance and Public Policy | Session 2 | Morning | Daniel Guttman |
| International Political Economy: The BRICS and the Emerging World Order | Session 2 | Morning | Gregory T. Chin |
| Remaking China’s Urban Futures: Urban Transformations in a Global Context | Session 2 | Morning | Hyun Bang Shin |
| Development Economics and Geopolitical Economy | Session 2 | Morning | Samuele Bibi |
| Social Policy Analysis and Development | Session 2 | Afternoon | Xin Ye |
| Capitalism, Socialism, and Developmental States | Session 2 | Afternoon | Dan Slater |
