Professor Hu Yumin is a Council Member & Senior Research Fellow at CACDA (China Arms and Disarmament Association) and Senior Research Fellow at Grandview Institute. He is also a guest professor and supervisor at the College of Defence Studies (CDS, NDU). Previously, he worked as a senior fellow at the China Institute for International and Strategic Studies (CISS). His credentials also include a role as a visiting scholar at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and as a participant in the executive course at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He also served as a member of Chinese delegations attending negotiations on the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in Geneva, Sino-Soviet negotiations on Arms Reduction and Confidence-Building Measures along the Border Areas, the Conference of P5 on Arms Transfer to the Middle East, the ASEAN Regional Forum's inter-sessional meetings on Confidence Building/Peace Keeping, and Sino-U.S. experts meeting on Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR).