Shen Dingli is a professor and former executive dean at Fudan University’s Institute of International Studies, and former Director of Center for American Studies. He is also an Honorary Visiting Professor of Washington University in St. Louis.  He has taught international security, China-US relations, China’s foreign and defense policy in China, the US and the “Semester at Sea” Program.  His research and publication covers China-US security relations, regional security and international strategy, arms control and nonproliferation, foreign and defense policy of China and the US etc.  He is Vice President of Shanghai UN Research Association, and Shanghai Public Policy Research Association.  He was Vice President of Chinese Association of South Asian Studies, Shanghai Association of International Studies, Shanghai Association of International Strategic Studies, and Shanghai Association of American Studies,.  He received his Ph.D. in physics from Fudan in 1989 and did post-doc in arms control at Princeton University from 1989-1991.  He was an Eisenhower Fellow in 1996, and advised in 2002 the then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan for his strategic planning of second term.  He is on the Global Council of the Asia Society.  He has been appointed by both Shanghai and Hangzhou Municipality as Convention Ambassador, respectively.  He has co-edited 17 books and published over 2,500 papers and articles worldwide.