Academic Committee The following list is sorted by the initial letters of surnames Xue Lan – Chairman of Academic Committee Professor, School of Public Policy and Management and Dean of Schwarzman Scholars, Tsinghua University Ghanim Alnajjar Professor, Kuwait University Anthony Black Emeritus Professor, School of Economics, University of Cape Town Bai Chong-En Professor, Dean of School of Economics and Management, and Mansfield Freeman Chair Professor, Tsinghua University Bi Shihong Professor, Institute of International Relations, Yunnan University Dong Jingsheng Professor, Department of History, Peking University Guo Jie Associate Professor, School of International Studies, Peking University Kono Yasuyuki Professor Vice-President for International Strategy, Kyoto University Director of iSO-KU, Kyoto University Jiang Jingkui Professor, Institute for International and Area Studies, Tsinghua University Lu Guangsheng Professor and Director, Institute of International Relations, Yunnan University Mu Tao Professor, Department of History, Director of African Studies Center and Dean of Da Xia College, East China Normal University Tim Niblock Emeritus Professor, University of Exeter Girijesh Pant Professor, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University Timothy Power Professor and Head of Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, Oxford University Eugene Rogan Professor, Modern Middle East History and Director, St Antony’s College Middle East Center, University of Oxford Shen Zhihua Tenured Professor, Department of History, East China Normal University Sun Zhuangzhi Senior Research Fellow and Director of Institute of Russian, Eastern European & Central Asian Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Wang Xu Associate Professor and Deputy Managing Director of Center for South Asian Studies, Peking University Yang Guang Senior Research Fellow and Dean of Institute for International and Area Studies, Tsinghua University and President of The Chinese Association of Middle East Studies Ye Hailin Senior Research Fellow and Vice President of the National Institute of International Stratege, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Zhong Weimin Professor, Department of History, Tsinghua University