The 15th East Asian Seminar on the UN System
第十五屆東亞聯合國系統研討會

The UN at 70 for a Better World:
East Asian Partnership in Global and Regional Governance
聯合國七十年：東亞在全球和地區治理中的夥伴關係

CONFERENCE PROGRAM
會議手冊

Fudan University, Shanghai，16-18 October 2015
復旦大學，2015 年 10 月 16-18 日

The 15th East Asian Seminar on the UN System

The UN at 70 for a Better World:
East Asian Partnership in Global and Regional GovernanceCo-hosted by
China Academic Net for United Nations Studies (CANUNS)Japan Association for United Nations Studies (JAUNS)
Korea Academic Council on the United Nations System (KACUNS)

In collaboration with
Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS)

Organized by
Shanghai United Nations Research Association (SUNRA)

Fudan University, Shanghai, China
16-18 October 2015

Contents

目錄Conference Agenda
會議議程List of Participants
代表名單Bios of Participants
代表簡歷Conference Agenda
會議議程Friday, 16 October
Arrival of participants
Venue: Crowne Plaza Shanghai Fudan（復旦皇冠假日酒店）
Address: 199 Handan Road, Shanghai, P.R. China 200433
Tel: +86-21-5552-9999 / Fax: +86-21-5552-9995
http://www.crowneplaza.com
18:00– 20:00 Welcoming dinner with a keynote speech
Venue: Meeting Room 1+2 (光華廳 1+2), second floor of the hotel
Chair: Prof. PAN Guang, President of Shanghai UN Research Association
Speaker: Prof. YANG Jiemian, President of Shanghai Society of International Strategic
Studies

Saturday, 17 October
Venue: Room 104, Center for American Studies (CAS) Building, Fudan University
Address: 680 Guoquan Road, Shanghai
Tel: +86-21-5566-4940 / Fax: +86-21-5566-4941
http://www.cas.fudan.edu.cn/index.en.php
08:30– 09:00
Registration
Opening session
09:00– 09:30
Moderator: Prof. PAN Guang, President, Shanghai UN Research Association
Welcome speech: Prof. ZHOU Yaming, Assistant to the President, Fudan
University
Opening remarks:- LIU Zhixian, Vice President and Director-General of UNA-China, Secretary
General of CANUNS- Professor Sukehiro HASEGAWA, Head of Japanese Delegation, JAUNS-Professor Kyudok HONG, President of KACUNS

09:30-09:50 group photo (in front of the CAS building) and coffee break
Plenary session I
New trends in global and regional security and governance – East Asian
perspectives
09:50–11:50
Chair: LIU Zhixian, Vice President and Director-General of UNA-China
Presentations (20 minutes each)- China: SHEN Dingli- Japan: Takeo UCHIDA- Korea: Shin-wha LEE
Comments (10 minutes each)- Japan: Sukehiro HASEGAWA- Korea: Kyudok HONG
- China: PAN Guang
Open Discussion
12:00–13:30 Lunch (UBC Coffee, 525 Guoquan Road)
Working group sessions (13:30-17:00)
Working group A （Room 104）
East Asian cooperation in enhancing peace and security
13:30– 15:15
Better governance of new regional security challenges
Chair: Sukehiro HASEGAWA
Rapporteur: Takaaki MIZUNO
Presentation (20 minutes each):- Japan: Satoshi HIROSE- Korea: Jeawook JUNG
- China: LIU Huaping
Comments (10 minutes each)- Korea: Eunsook CHUNG- China: LIU Ming
- Japan: Takaaki MIZUNO
15:15 – 15:30 coffee break
15:30– 17:15

East Asian cooperation in UN peacekeeping and peace building operations
Chair: Shin-wha LEE
Rapporteur: XUE Lei
Presentation (20 minutes each)- Korea: Eunsook CHUNG- China: LIU Tiewa- Japan: Hiromi Nagata FUJISHIGE
Comments (10 minutes each)- China: SHENG Hongsheng- Japan: Mariko SHOJI- Korea: Yunmi CHOI
Working group session B (Room 214)
East Asian perspectives: Development and Human Rights
13:30– 15:15 Finance and development governance – East Asian perspectives
Chair: GUO Shuyong
Rapporteur: Han Hee LEE
Presentation (20 minutes each)- China: XU Mingqi- Japan: Kazuo Takahashi- Korea: Heung-Soon PARK
Comments (10 minutes each)- Japan: Hiroyuki Fujimaki- Korea: Han Hee LEE- China: YU Hongyuan
15:15 – 15:30 coffee break
15:30 – 17:15 Human rights and culture: global and regional implications
Chair: Koji FURUKAWA
Rapporteur: LI Xueyao
Presentation (20 minutes each)- Japan: Misako TAKIZAWA- Korea: Young Hoon SONG
- China: GUO Shuyong
Comments (10 minutes each)- Korea: Changrok SOH- China: ZHANG Guihong- Japan: Hajime AKIYAMA
15:45 departure from the lobby of the hotel for boat trip on the Huangpu River

Sunday, 18 October
09:00– 09:45 Plenary session II
Reporting to the plenary by the working groups
Chair: Takeo UCHIDA, Former Professor, Chuo University
Rapporteur (for group session A)：Takaaki MIZUNO, XUE Lei
Rapporteur (for group session B)：Han Hee LEE, LI Xueyao
09:45 – 10:00 coffee break
10:00 – 12:00 Plenary session III
East Asian partnership in defining a post-2015 development framework at theUnited Nations
Chair: Joun-yung SUN, Distinguished Professor of Kyungnam University, Former
Korean Ambassador to UN
Presentation (20 minutes each)- Japan: Jun KUKITA- Korea: Dong Ju CHOI
- China: YE Jiang
Comments (10 minutes each)- Japan: Yasushi KATSUMA- Korea: Young Hoon SONG
- China: SHEN Dingli
12:00 – 12:15 Final plenary session IV
Concluding remarks
Chair: ZHANG Guihong, Vice President and Secretary General of SUNRA- Professor Kyudok HONG, President, KACUNS- Professor Sukehiro HASEGEWA, Head of Japanese Delegation, JAUNS- Mr. LIU Zhixian, Vice President and Director-General of UNA-China, Secretary
General of CANUNS
12:20– 13:30 Lunch (UBC Coffee, 525 Guoquan Road))
14:00- sightseeing in downtown (Peace Hotel and The Shanghai Jewish Refugees
Museum)List of Participants
代表名單

CHINA
LIU Zhixian
劉志賢
LIU Huaping
劉華平
RUAN Hongmei
阮紅梅
LIU Tiewa
劉鐵娃
PAN Guang潘光SHEN Dingli
沈丁立
LIU Ming
劉鳴
GUO Shuyong
郭樹勇
YE Jiang
葉江
XU Mingqi
徐明棋
SHENG Hongsheng

Vice-President and Director-General of the United
Nations Association of China
Professor at school of International relations, Beijing
Language & Culture University (BLCU)
Professor of Translation Studies in Northwestern
Polytechnical University
Associate Professor and Deputy Director of ResearchCentre of the United Nations and International
Organizations in School of International Relations
and Diplomacy at Beijing Foreign Studies University
Vice Chairman and Professor of Shanghai Center forInternational Studies, Director of SCO Studies
Center in Shanghai, Dean of Center of Jewish Studies
Shanghai, President of SUNRA
Professor and Associate Dean at Fudan University’s
Institute of International Studies
Executive Director of the Institute of International
Relations (IIRS), and Director of the Center for Korea
Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS)
Dean of School of International Relations and Public
Affairs (SIRPA) at Shanghai International Studies
University
Director of the Institute for Global GovernanceStudies, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies(SIIS)
Professor of International Economics and the
Director of European Studies Center at Shanghai
Academy of Social Sciences
Professor of Public International Law at Shanghai

盛紅生
ZHANG Guihong
張貴洪
ZHANG Yi

University of Political Sciences and Law
Professor Executive Director, Center for UN Studies,
Fudan University, Vice President and Secretary
General of SUNRA
Deputy Director of the Secretariat of UNA-China

張毅
LI Xueyao
李雪瑤Programme Officer
Association of China

of

the

UnitedJAPAN
Sukehiro HASEGAWA

Visiting Professor, UNU,

長谷川祐弘

国連大学客員教授

Takeo UCHIDA

Former Professor, Chuo University,

内田孟男

元中央大学教授

Jun KUKITA

Professor, Kwansei Gakuin University,

久木田純

関西学院大学教授

Hiromi FUJISHIGEi

Associate Professor, Hosei University,

藤重博美

法政大学准教授

Kazuo TAKAHASHIFormer Professor, ICU,高橋一生

元ICU教授Satoshi HIROSE

Professor, Nagasaki University,

広瀬訓

長崎大学教授Yasushi KATSUMA

Professor , Waseda University,

勝間靖

早稲田大学教授

Mariko SHOUJI

Professor, Keiai University,

庄司真理子

敬愛大学教授Misako TAKIZAWA

Professor, Obirin University,

滝沢美佐子

桜美林大学教授

Nations

Koji FURUKAWA

Professor, Chukyo University,

古川浩司

中京大学教授

Hiroyuki FUJIMAKI

Lecturer, Tokai University,

藤巻裕之

東海大学講師

Hajime AKIYAMA

MA student, ICU,秋山肇

ICU大学院博士前期課程

Takaaki MIZUNO

Professor, KUIS,

水野孝昭

神田外語大学教授

KOREA

Kyudok HONG
홍규덕, 洪圭德Joun Yung SUN선준영, 宣晙英
Heung-Soon PARK박흥순, 朴興淳
Changrok SOH
서창록, 徐昌綠
Young Hoon SONG
송영훈, 宋映勳Shin-wha LEE이신화, 李信和
Han Hee LEE이한희, 李 翰 熙
Eunsook CHUNG
정은숙, 鄭 銀 淑President of KACUNS, Professor of Sookmyong Women's
University & Former Korean Deputy Minister for Defense
Reform at the Ministry of National Defense
Former Korean Ambassador to the United Nations,
Former CEO of the UN Association of Korea, andProfessor of Kyungnam University
Dean of the Graduate School, Sun Moon University &Former President of KACUNSProfessor of Korea University, United Nations Human
Rights Council (HRC) Advisory Committee Member
Professor of Kangwon National University
Professor of Korea University & UN Secretary-General's
Advisory Group Member on UN Peacebuilding Fund
(PBF)
Senior Advisor on International & Inter-Korean
Cooperation, Gyeonggi Provincial Government
Senior Research Fellow the Sejong Institute, Board
Member of Academic Council on the of Director
2015-2018

Jeawook JUNG
정재욱 鄭宰旭

Professor of Sookmyung Women's University

Dong Ju CHOI
최동주, 崔東柱
Yunmi CHOI
최윤미, 崔允美

Professor of Sookmyung Women's University
Research Professor of Institute of Security Studies,
Sookmyung Women’s University & Project Manager of
IWFF (UN ECOSOC Consultative NGO)

GUESTSYANG Jiemian
楊潔勉Roger A. Coate

Alistair D. Edgar

A member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Group of
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, Vice
President of China Association of American Studies,
President of Shanghai Society of International
Strategic Studies
Paul D. Coverdell Professor of Public Policy at Georgia
College & State University, Vice Chair of the Board of
Directors of the Academic Council on the United Nations
System (ACUNS)
Executive Director of the Academic Council on the
United Nations System (ACUNS)OBSERVERS
GUO Fengcheng郭峰鋮
YU Hongyuan
於宏源
XUE Lei薛磊
QI Huaigao
祁懷高
HAN Rong
韓榮
GUO YiVice Chairman of Zhongdao Group, Vice President of
SUNRA
Professor and Director of Institute for Comparative
Politics and Public Policy at the Shanghai Institutes forInternational Studies
Research fellow of the Center for Maritime and Polar
Studies, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies
Associate Professor of Center for UN Studies at Fudan
University’s Institute of International Studies
Lecturer of Northwestern Polytechnical University(NPU),
the instructor of NPU Model United Nations
Lecturer at School of International Studies, Zhejiang

國懿
ZHANG Jiao
張皎
TANG Di唐棣
YANG Huiying
楊惠英
QIAN Siyun錢思韻

University
Post-Doctor researcher and lecturer of International Law
Department at East China University of Political Scienceand Law
Faculty advisor of Model United Nations team at Sichuan
University
Associate professor in School of Foreign Languages ofNorthwestern Polytechnical University Polytechnical
University
Researcher in Macro & Strategy of Great wall Securities
Co., Ltd of China

Bios of Participants代表簡歷（alphabetical order）

CHINA
GUO Shuyong(郭樹勇)
Prof. Guo Shuyong, born in Shandong Province in China, is dean of
School of International Relations and Public Affairs (SIRPA) at
Shanghai International Studies University. He is also the deputy
secretary general of International Politics Research Institute of
China’s Universities, vice-chairman of the Basic Theory ResearchInstitute in China Behavioral Law Association, vice-chairman of
Association of Shanghai International Strategic Studies, and foreign
affair consultant specialist of Shanghai, etc. Prof. Guo earned hisbachelor and master degree of English language and literature andInternational Politics respectively in PLA University of Foreign
Language. He was admitted to the Department of International Politics at Fudan University to geta Ph.D degree, and his doctoral dissertation was Constructivism and International Political
Sociology. He once served in troops and military academies. From 2004 on, He taught in School ofInternational and Public Affairs at Shanghai Jiao Tong University until he was then transferred toserved as head of section of Legislation at People's Congress of Shanghai City. During this period,
he participated in the activities of academic communication in Russia, US, Singapore, Canada,
Japan, German, Mexico, India and so forth. Prof. Guo was one of distinguished scholars who
introduced constructivism to China in 1990s, and has been one of pioneering advocators of
subdivision of international political sociology (IPS) in the International Relations. His theoreticalresearch fields include IPS, constructivism, and Marxism Theories of International Relations andso forth. His applied research directions primarily focus on soft power strategy, crisis
management and India Issue Studies and so on. With 70 influential academic papers ininternational and domestic academic periodical, his representative writings include
Constructivism and International Politics (2001), Marxist Thoughts on International Relations(2004), International Relations Theories: the Call of China (2005), On Strategy (2005), The Logicof the Rise of Great Power (2006), From Internationalism to New-Internationalism (2006),
Strategy Studies (2009), China's Soft Power Strategy (2012), Introduction to International Political
Sociology (2014). He is also the translator of Neo-realism and its Critics (2002), A Grand Strategy
for America (2005) and Culture Realism.

LI Xueyao(李雪瑤)
Ms. Li Xueyao, born in Beijing in 1987, currently works as
Programme Officer of the United Nations Association ofChina. Ms. Li received both her Bachelor of Arts degreeand Master of Arts degree in English Literature from
Peking University. She also acquired another Bachelor
degree in Economics from National School ofDevelopment, Peking University and completed a
one-year Human Rights Master Program, jointly provided
by Peking University Law School and the Raoul
Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and HumanitarianLaw, Lund University Sweden.
LIU Huaping(劉華平)
Dr Huaping Liu is Professor of International History, Arms Control,and International Security for undergraduates and graduates atschool of International relations, Beijing Language & Culture
University (BLCU). She is a core member of Project on Strategic
Stability Evaluation (POSSE 2010-2015), a joint project of the Center
for International Strategy and policy, Georgia Tech and the James
Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute. She
was visiting scholar at Center of International Studies at University ofCambridge from 2004 to 2005. She got Ph.D. in International
Relations from Beijing Foreign Affairs University, BA and MA in Modern World History & British
History from Beijing Normal University. She has published works focus on the issues of nuclear
disarmament, non-proliferation, missile defense. Her current research is specifically on
double-standard problem in nuclear non-proliferation area, nuclear deep cuts, Sino-US strategic
stability, Asia-Pacific security.
LIU Ming(劉鳴)Liu Ming currently is professor, executive director of the Instituteof International Relations (IIRS), and director of the Center for
Korea Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS). He
was director of the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at SASS from2009-2012. Dr. Liu holds a Ph. D.in political sciences from World
Economy Institute, Fudan University in 1999. He has also been avisiting scholar at Columbia University, Seoul National University
and Stanford University, respectively in 1993, 1996 and 2000.His
research interests cover major power relations, US strategy,
Chinese foreign policy, maritime security, Northeast Asia security.

Over his 25 year career, Liu has contributed extensively to several leading Chinese and English
journals in China, the US, Canada and South Korea. The main English publications include:“Northeast Asia Order after WWII: Continuity, Compliance, Power-Transition and Challenges”(theKorean Journal of Defense Analysis, 2015); “Opportunities and Challenges for Sino-American
Cooperation on the Korean Peninsula”(the Korean Journal of Defense Analysis) ; “China and theNorth Korean Crisis: Facing Test and Transition”(Pacific Affairs); “The Paradox of Economic
Integration and Territorial Rivalry in the South China Sea” (Palgrave Pivot, 2015); Korean
Peninsula Division / Unification and China: From the Economic Perspective of China” (Korea
Institute for National Unification, 2012); “Changes and Continuities in Pyongyang’s China Policy”(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012); “Northeast Asian Regional Policy Coordination in an Era
of Fundamental Change in North Korea”(The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation,2011) and“Chinese Perspectives on the East Asian Security Environment and the Korean Peninsula”(Korean
Institute for National Unification, 2014), etc.
LIU Tiewa(劉鐵娃)
Liu Tiewa, Ph.D of Waseda University, Japan and Beijing
University, China, is researching mainly on United Nations,International Organizations and North-East Asian Studies. She is
the associate professor in School of International Relations andDiplomacy at Beijing Foreign Studies University and wasnominated as the Deputy Director of Research Centre of theUnited Nations and International Organizations there in 2010.
She also serves as the Advisory Board Member and China
Program coordinator of Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility
to Protect in Australia and has been a visiting fellow at the centre
from June 2014 to June 2015. In recent years, she has mainly worked on R2P, Peacekeeping andPeacebuilding operations and her recent publication includesHegemonic Status and Institutional
Openness: Analysis of the US Influence in the International Organizations (1945-2010), (Chinese),Peking University Press, 2013, The Responsibility to Protect: Chinese Perspectives on Norm
Building, (Chinese, chief editor), Peking University, 2015, “China and Responsibility to Protect:
Maintenance and Change of Its Policy for Intervention”, The Pacific Review, Vol. 25 No. 1 March
2012; “Chinese Strategic Culture and the Use of Force: Moral and Political Perspective inContemporary Chinese Diplomacy,” The Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 23, No. 87, May
2014, . She was also responsible for some projects launched by the government, like “AttractingMore International Organizations to Settle Down in Beijing” and “Enhancing the Development ofInternational Events in Beijing”.
LIU Zhixian(劉志賢)
Mr. Liu Zhixian is currently Vice-President and Director-Generalof the United Nations Association of China. He also serves as
Chinese Expert for the United Nations Secretary-General’s
Mechanism for Investigation of Alleged Use of Chemical andBiological Weapons. He once worked in the Chinese Embassy inFiji and the Chinese Mission to the United Nations Office andOther International Organizations in Geneva. He served as Deputy Director and then Director of
the Department of International Organizations and Conferences of the Chinese Foreign Ministry,as Counselor in the Chinese Embassy in the Netherlands, as Deputy Permanent Representative to
the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), as Deputy Director-General of
the Department of Arms Control of the Chinese Foreign Ministry and later as Director of External
Relations of OPCW in the Netherlands. Mr. Liu graduated from the Beijing Foreign Studies
University and later from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in
Geneva.
PAN Guang(潘光)Pan Guang Is Professor of History & Political Science, Ambassador of
the UNAOC, Ph. D in history. Dr. PAN Guang is Vice Chairman andProfessor of Shanghai Center for International Studies, Director of
SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) Studies Center inShanghai, Dean of Center of Jewish Studies Shanghai (CJSS), Vice
President of Chinese Association of Middle East Studies, andPresident of Shanghai UN Research Association. He is International
Council Member of Asia Society in USA, Senior Advisor of
China-Eurasia Forum in USA, Committee Member of the WISE Prize
for Education, founded by Qatar Foundation, and Senior Advisor on
Anti-terror Affairs to Shanghai Municipality and Ministry of Public Security of PRC. He obtained
1993 James Friend Annual Memorial Award for Sino-Jewish Studies, 1996 Special Award for
Canadian Studies (especially for research on Canadian Jews from China), Sankt Peterburg-300
Medal for Contribution to China-Russia Relations awarded by President Putin in 2004 and Austria
Holocaust Memorial Award in 2006. He was appointed by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan as
member of the High-Level Group for the UN Alliance of Civilizations in 2005, and appointed as
Ambassador of the AoC in 2008.Professor Pan has conducted research all over the world,
including at Columbia University, Boston University, the Brookings Institution, Stanford University,
Leiden University, and Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has been giving lectures widely inNorth America, East Asia, Russia, Central Asia, Europe, Middle East and Australia. He holds a
number of prestigious posts in Chinese institutions on International Studies, Asian Studies,
Middle East Studies and Jewish Studies, and published books and articles on a variety of topics
such as “The Jews in China”, “The Jews in Asia: Comparative Perspective”, “The Jews in Shanghai”,“The Political and Cultural Impact of the Holocaust ”, “From Silk Road to ASEM: 2000 Years ofAsia-Europe Relations”, “A Comprehensive Studies on Shanghai Cooperation Organization”,"Contemporary International Crises”, “China’s Success in the Middle East”, “China’s Anti-terror
Strategy”, “Islam and Confucianism: the Development of Chinese Islam”, “China’s Energy
Strategy”, “China’s Policy on AF/PAK”，“China’s Role in Changing Middle East” and so on.
RUAN Hongmei (阮紅梅)
Ms. Ruan Hongmei, born December 17, 1965 in Shandong, China, is
a professor of Translation Studies in Northwestern Polytechnical
University, Xi'an. She got Bachelor of Arts degree from the Xi'an
International University in 1987, majoring in English, Master of Arts

degree from the Xi'an International University in 1990, majoring in Translation Studies, andDoctor Degree from Shanghai International University in 2014, majoring in Translation Studies.
She is Faculty Advisor of Model UN team of Northwestern Polytechnical University since 2001.
She teaches English both for undergraduate majors and postgraduate majors. She is thesupervisor of Master degree of Translation Studies. Working as the faculty advisor of Model UN
program, she leads student delegations to participate in and run MUN conferences bothnationwide and worldwide. Also, she teaches courses of United Nations and Model United
Nations. Her Model UN program received Second Prize of National Teaching Achievement Award.
SHEN Dingli(沈丁立)
Shen Dingli is a professor and associate dean at Fudan University’s
Institute of International Studies. He has taught international
security, China-US relations, China’s foreign and defense policy inChina, the US and the “Semester at Sea” Program. His researchand publication covers China-US security relations, regional
security and international strategy, arms control andnonproliferation, foreign and defense policy of China and the US
etc. He is Vice President of Chinese Association of South AsianStudies, Shanghai Association of International Studies, Shanghai
Association of American Studies, and Shanghai UN Research
Association. 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, andadvised in 2002 the then UNSecretary General Kofi Annan for his strategic planning of second
term. He is on the Global Council of Asia Society, and is appointed by Shanghai Municipality andHangzhou Municipality as both Shanghai Convention Ambassador and Hangzhou Convention
Ambassador. He has co-edited 17 books and published over 2,000 papers and articles
worldwide.
SHENG Hongsheng（盛紅生）
SHENG is Professor of Public International Law at Shanghai
University of Political Sciences and Law, China. He was awarded
LL.M at the University of Nottingham, UK and Ph.D at Wuhan
University, China. In June 2011, he was granted the title “Qianjiang
Professorship” by People’s Government of Zhejiang Province in
China. From April 2004 to April 2005, he was United Nations Expert
on Mission for the MONUC in the Democratic Republic of theCongo, serving as Team Leader of Military Observers, and Senior
Liaison Officer. He was also appointed by the Chief of the Mission
Chair of Independent Board of Enquiry to review international
criminal cases. Up till now, he has published 6 titles and over eighty articles in leading academic
journals at home and abroad. His academic interests focus on international law, international
relations, international organization, international humanitarian law and international criminal
justice as well.

XU Mingqi(徐明棋)Dr.Xu Mingqi is a professor of International Economics and the
Director of European Studies Center at Shanghai Academy of Social
Sciences, where he served as deputy director of Institute of World
Economy during 2005-2013 and Editor in Chief of Social Sciences
and Academic Quarterly in 1998-2001. He is now also thepresident of Shanghai Institute for European Studies and Secretary-General of Shanghai Coordination Center for FTZ Studies. His main
research areas are in the theory international economics,
international finance, international political economy, European
Economy, monetary economics and monetary policy, and China’s
economic system reforms. Dr. Xu graduated from Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and holds
MA and Ph. D degrees in international Economics from SASS and did post doctoral research at
Harvard University with Harvard-Yeching Institute scholarship during 1995-1996. Previously he
was awarded scholarship by Chinese government to conduct research at University of Western
Ontario in Canada. He publishes extensively in international economic theory and policy issues
both in Chinese and English. He is frequently invited to give public lectures and consultancy togovernment officials and business executives of both domestic and multinational corporations forinternational economic issues.
YE Jiang(葉江)Professor Ye Jiang, born in 1955, received his MA in History at East
China Normal University in 1987 and his PhD in Law at Fudan
University in 1998. He is the director of the Institute for Global
Governance Studies, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies(SIIS). He is also a professor, PhD supervisor at the School ofInternational and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He
was visiting fellow at University of Copenhagen, Denmark(9/1992-3/1993), Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA(1/1995-1/1996), University of Cambridge, UK (8/2000-8/2001),
Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies,
Luxembourg (4/2001), Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan (10/2002-2/2003), Institut d'Etudes
Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), France (9/2007-10/2007), and Center for Strategic andInternational Studies (CSIS), Washington D.C, USA (9/2014-12/2014 ） .He is concurrently
vice-chairman of the Chinese Association of World Ethno-Nations, vice-chairman of the Shanghai
Institute of European Studies and council member of the Shanghai Association of International
Relations. He has so far finished two Programs of National Philosophy and Social Sciences, two
Programs of Shanghai Municipal Philosophy and Social Sciences, and a Program entrusted by the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of PRC for the studies of the impact of Euro zone debt crisis on
European Integration. Since 2013 he has been the chief expert in the study of UN post 2015
development agenda at SIIS and has co-edited a Collection of Articles with Thomas Fues - The
United Nations Post-2015Agenda for Global Development: Perspectives from China and Europe.
He is the author of five monographs: Reading U.S. and Europe -U.S.-Europe Ties in European

Integration, The Grand Change - Globalization, Cold War and Contemporary International Political
Economic Relations, Global Governance and the Transformation of China’s Strategy in Dealing
with Great Powers, New Analysis of the International System and International Structure, and On
the China-EU Relations Through a New Angle, etc., and has about 100 articles published byacademic journals both at home and abroad. His three works wan the 7th and 12th ShanghaiAward of Excellent Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences (2002-2003, 2012-2013). And
his other three works wan the sixth (2008), eighth (2010) and tenth (2012) Shanghai Social
Sciences Association Annual Conference Excellent Papers Rewards. In late 2012 he was winner ofan Award for Major Foreign Policy Research by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China.
ZHANG Guihong(張貴洪）
Dr. Prof. ZHANG Guihong is Executive Director of Centre for UN Studies
at Fudan University. Prof. Zhang is member of the executive board of
the United Nations Association of China, China’s Association of South
Asian Studies as well as Shanghai Association of International Studies,and council member of China-India Friendship Association. He is Vice
President and Secretary-General of Shanghai UN Research Association.
He has participated in the “International Visitor Leadership Program”(2003) sponsored by U.S. Department of State and was a visiting
scholar at the Henry L. Stimson Centre (2002-2003), Monterey
Institute of International Studies and University of Georgia (2008),
University of Washington (2010), USA, and ASIA Fellow at Jawaharlal Nehru University as well as
Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (2004-2005), India. His major areas of research include
UN-related issues, Sino-U.S.-Indian relations, International Organizations, and Asia-Pacific security.
He is the author of the book Beyond Balance of Power: U.S. Security Strategy toward South Asia
after the End of Cold War, co-author of the book A Study of China-U.S.-India Relations, and theeditor-in-chief of “Fudan UN Studies Series” including UN Secretary-General, UN and Dialogue
among Civilizations, UN Development Report (annual), UN and South-South Cooperation, andChina, UN and Global Governance.
ZHANG Yi(張毅)Mr. Zhang Yi was born in Lhasa, Tibet in 1977. He spent hischildhood and had most of his school education there. Mr. Zhang
Yi received his Bachelor Degree on economics from Beijing Second
Foreign Language Institute and Mater of Public Administration from
Renmin University of China. Mr. Zhang Yi joined UNA-China in 1999
and worked as a programme officer. He took a contract with China
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and served as a diplomat in Chinese
Embassy in Oslo from 2003-2007. He rejoined UNA-China after his
return from Norway. He is currently the Deputy Director of theSecretariat of UNA-China. He is responsible for project
management and day-to-day affairs of the Secretariat. Mr. Zhang Yi is enthusiastic on studying UN
affairs. He wrote the chapter of UN and Counter Terrorism in UN towards a Harmonious World(2008). He is also a frequent writer for newspapers and magazines. His recent article was on thelatest adjustment on the assessment of UN budget.

JAPAN

Hajime AKIYAMA(秋山肇)
Hajime Akiyama, born in Tokyo in 1992, is a Master’s Student at
International Christian University (ICU) in Tokyo. He obtained
Bachelor’s degree on March 2015 from ICU, majored in Peace
Studies and International Relations. He received the Award of
Brilliance of the 29th Eisaku Sato Essay Contest organised by Eisaku
Sato Memorial Foundation for Cooperation with United Nations
University in 2013. He is currently researching on statelessness
from the international legal perspective. He was an assistant of thereport concerning statelessness in Japan commissioned by UNHCR
published in 2015. He is a member of JAUNS, Peace Studies
Association of Japan and Japan Association for African Studies. He is also a tenor of the Ensemble
Choir SPERA, a male ensemble choir in Japan.
Hiroyuki FUJIMAKI (藤巻裕之)
Hiroyuki Fujimaki is a lecturer at Department of Human
Development, Tokai University. He is teaching International
Relations, Regionalism in Northeast Asia, at Tokai University. He
received his M.A. from Webster University (U.S.) in International
Relations. He studied at Institute of World Economy andInternational Relations (IMEMO) in Russian Academy of Sciences,while he was working on his dissertation in Graduate School ofTokai University. He starts his career as assistant researcher andpart time lecturer at Strategic Peace and International Affairs
Research Institute, Tokai University (SPIRIT). Recently, he focuses on relationship between
Russia and regionalism in Northeast and Central Asia. His books include “The World Ordercreated by the United States (co-authorship)” (2013), “Creating East Asian Community” (2006).

Hiromi NAGATA FUJISHIGE (藤重博美)Hiromi Nagata Fujishige is an associate professor at Department of
Global and Interdisciplinary Studies at Hosei University in Tokyo.
She is a specialist in peacebuilding/peace operations. Previously,
she lectured at Nagoya University of Business and Commerce andalso researched at Japan Institute of International Affairs, athink-tank closely linked with the Japanese Foreign Ministry. After
graduating from Doshisha University in Kyoto, she attended
postgraduate schools at University of London, receiving a
postgraduate diploma in War Studies from King’s College London, aM.Sc. in International Relations and Development Studies from theLondon School of Economics and Political Science and a Ph.D. in
Political Studies from School of Oriental and African Studies. She has widely written on
peacebuilding/peace operations. She has recently co-edited a book on the Japanese inter-agency
coordination (so-called “All Japan”) to support the states after conflicts and natural disasters.
Koji FURUKAWA (古川浩司)
Koji Furukawa, born in 1972, is currently a professor of Chukyo
University of International Relations. He studied Political Science at
the University of Tsukuba, International Public Policy at theGraduate School of Osaka University where he obtained a Master’s
degree and further studied for his doctorate. He specializes inInternational Relations generally and United Nations’ Activities on
Human Rights (ex. Human Rights Council, UNHCR) in particular. He
is a member of JAUNS, Peace Studies Association of Japan, Japan
Association of International Relations (JAIR) and so on. He
previously participated in the study group working on United
Nations and Multi-diplomacy in Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in 2012-13. He is also an
acting chair of the Japan International Border Studies Network (JIBSN) since 2015.
Kazuo TAKAHASHI(高橋一生)
Dr. Kazuo Takahashi is the former Professor of International
Christian
University(2001-2007)
andits
visiting
professor(2007-2008) where he obtained BA (1965) and MA (1967).
After receiving PhD in political science from Columbia University in
1975, he worked at OECD from 1976-1987 serving at theDevelopment
Cooperation
Directorate
and
at
the
Secretary-General’s Office. Other positions include the first
Program Director of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (1987-1996)
and the first Director of the Institute of Development Studies of
FASID(1996-2001), concurrently being a visiting professor at Tokyo University, teaching at Waseda
and Chuo Universities. His life-works are in the field of international cooperation and on
education.

Sukehiro HASEGAWA (長谷川祐弘)
Sukehiro Hasegawa, born in Tokyo in 1942, is the former Special
Representative of the Secretary-General for Timor-Leste (20042006). His UN assignments included Deputy Assistant
Administrator of UNDP for Asia (1996-99), Deputy Executive
Coordinator of UN Volunteers (1987-1992), UN Resident
Coordinator in Samoa, Rwandaand Timor-Leste, and Director,
Policy and Planning, UNOSOM II in Somalia. He is currently visiting
Professor of Hosei and UN Universities, and member of the Boardof Directors of JAUNS, the UN Association of Japan, and the Earth Charter Commission for Japan.
He is the ACUNS Liaison Officer in Tokyo and is Personal Advisor to former President and Prime
Minister of Timor-Leste José Ramos-Horta He holds a Ph.D. in international relations from
Washington University, St. Louis, USA and has two daughters, one son and three grandchildren.
Satoshi HIROSE (広瀬訓)Satoshi Hirose, born in Fukushima Prefecture in 1961,graduatedfrom International Christian University in 1985 then proceeded to
its Graduate School of Public Administration. He is currently serving
as a Professor and the Vice Director of Research Center for Nuclear
Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University. He is a member of theBoard of Directors of JAUNS and a co-editor of ‘Disarmament
Review‛ by the Japan Association of Disarmament Studies. He
previously served for the UNDP as a programme officer and for the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan as a legal adviser to theJapanese Delegation to the Conference on Disarmament. He also participated in the Review andExtension Conference of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty in 1995 as a member of Japanese
Delegation.
Yasushi KATSUMA (勝間靖)
Yasushi Katsuma is Dean of the Graduate School of Asia-PacificStudies at Waseda University. He serves JAUNS as a Director & a
Steering Committee member, and the Japan Society forInternational Development (JASID) as a Vice-President. Previously,
he was a UNICEF staff member in Mexico, Afghanistan/Pakistan
and Tokyo, and was a consultant for Japanese ODA conducting
research in South & Southeast Asia and Latin America. He received
his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; LL.M. & LL.B.
from Osaka University; and B.A. from International Christian
University, after studying at the University of California-San Diego. His fields of specialization are
Development Studies, International Human Rights Studies, and Human Security Studies. His
publications include the following: The Role and Challenges of Japanese NGOs in the Global
Health Policymaking Process (2009, co-authored).

Jun KUKITA(久木田純)
Jun Kukita is Professor at Kwansei Gakuin University. He served in
UNICEF between 1986 and 2015, recently as Representative for
Kazakhstan as well as for East Timor. He also served in offices in
New York Headquarters, Bangladesh, Tokyo, Namibia, andMaldives. He studied communication and linguistics at Seinan
Gakuin University, Sociology and Ethnic Relations at the National
University of Singapore, and Education and Psychology at theGraduate School of Kyushu University, where he obtained a
Master’s degree and further studied for his doctorate. During his
service in East Timor he was decorated with "Ordem deTimor-Leste Insignia" from President Ramos-Horta for his contribution to peace and development,
and in New York Headquarters he was awarded the World Bank “President's Award for Financial
Innovation” forging a broad partnership for Global Polio Eradication Programme. He retired from
UNICEF in January 2015.
Takaaki MIZUNO(水野孝昭)
Takaaki Mizuno, born in 1958, is a professor of Kanda University ofInternational Studies. He joined daily the Asahi Shimbun in 1982,
and based as its bureau chief in Hanoi, Vietnam from 1992~1994
and its diplomatic correspondent in Washington D.C. during the
Clinton years. After spending time as a visiting scholar at theEast-West Center in Honolulu, and at the Chinese Institute ofContemporary International Relations in Beijing in 2003, he was
assigned to New York bureau chief to cover the UN before
becoming a member of the editorial board of the paper in 2007. He
graduated from the University of Tokyo, and later gained M.A. on American Foreign Policy fromthe Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University.
Misako TAKIZAWA (滝澤美佐子)
Misako Takizawa is Professor at J. F. Oberlin University, Tokyo
where she specializes in International Law and Organizations. She
has a Ph.D. from International Christian University in 1996 and a
Diploma in International Law from the University of London in
1992. Her interests lies in human rights standard-setting andmonitoring mechanisms through the UN and critical looking at
mainstreaming human rights within the UN system and she has
written several books and articles on these issues. She is a Board
Member of JACUNS and she had taught International Law,
International Human Rights Law, International Organizations and Human Security at various
universities and graduate schools. She was also a Visiting Fellow at Hitotsubashi University as
well as at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Law Department.

Mariko SHOJI (庄司真理子)
Mariko Shoji, born in Tokyo, is a professor in the Faculty of Schoolof International Studies at Keiai University where she specializes ininternational organization, law and politics. She is an executive
board member of the Japan Association of Global Governance from2011. She was an executive board member of the JAUNS from2004-2010. She was a chief editor of the JAUNS from 2009-2010.
She presided a workshop with the United Nations Global Compact
Office as the title of “United Nations Global Compact Business andPeace Workshop: Business’ contribution to Peace and Development
through Multi-stakeholder Collaboration” in 2010. Since 2011, she
has been serving as a member of the expert meeting of “Business for Peace” of the UN Global
Compact.

Takeo UCHIDA (内田孟男)
Takeo Uchidagraduated from International Christian University andobtained Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He
served at UNESCO in Paris and the United Nations University inTokyo as an academic officer. He then taught international public
policy at Chuo University between 1995 and 2011 until his
retirement. He is currently on the Steering Committee of the
JAUNS. He recently edited two books in Japanese, respectively
entitled: Transformation of Global Society and Governance (2010)
and International Organization: Theory and Practice (2013).

KOREA
CHOI, Dong Ju (최동주, 崔東柱)
Dr. Dong-Ju Choi is a Professor in the School of Global Service andGraduate School of International Service at Sookmyung Women’s
University (SMU). He also serves as the Policy Advisor of the
Korean Ministry of Defense, Foreign Affairs and Education. In
addition, He is the Board Member of the Korean Association ofInternational Studies, the Association of Defense Policy Studies
and Fullbright Foundation. Dr. Choi received his PhD in Political
Economy at University of London in 1996 and he has worked at
POSCO Research Institute as a Team Head of Policy Development
Division.

CHOI, Yunmi (최윤미, 崔允美)
Dr. Yunmi Choi is a Senior Researcher/Research Professor at theInstitute of Security Studies, Sookmyung Women’s University. She
received her Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, UK, in 2013.
Before joining the academia, Yunmi had held various work
experiences some of which are a producer and journalist for CNN
in Seoul (2003-04) and a special advisor on Peacekeeping for thePermanent Mission of the ROK to the UN in 2010. She is currently
in charge of managing one of the Korean Government’s ODA
projects that have been conducted in Vietnam. Her researchinterests lie in multilateral/regional cooperation in international
peace and security, women’s role in peace operations, UN peacekeeping, EU’s CFSP, and thetrust-building process on the Korean peninsula. Her recent research publication includes“International Peacekeeping Cooperation: How Does It Work?: Decision-Making Framework for
UN-EU Cooperation” (The Korean Journal of Security Affairs, 2014), and “Toward A New Paradigm
for Peacekeeping: Enhancing Smart Power in the Realm of Defence and Foreign Strategy”(Institute for National Security Strategy, 2015).

CHUNG, Eunsook (정은숙, 鄭銀淑)
Dr. Chung Eunsook has been working at the Strategic Studies
Division of the Institute since 1992. She was the Institute's
Director of Research (2009-2010) and Vice President (2011-12).
Dr. Chung is a graduate of Korea University (B.A. and M.A. inpolitical science) and the Ohio State University (Ph.D. in politicalscience, 1991) where she was granted the Graduate Student
Research Alumni Award (1990). She was a Visiting Fellow of theFinnish Institute of International Affairs, Hoover Institution of
Stanford University, Austrian Institute for International Affairs andPeace Research Institute in Frankfurt. Dr. Chung has served the
Korean Association for International Relations Studies and the Korean Association for Slavic
Studies as a member of the respective boards of directors. She is currently a board member of the
ACUNS(2015-2018). Her research interests include international relations, international security,
Russia/Eurasia, multilateral security and South Korea's national strategy. Her recent research
publications include a book entitled Global Security Governance: Issues and Actors [in Korean,
2012], an article “Republic of Korea’s Peacekeeping Operations,” in Global Leadership
Committee, Republic of Korea’s Global Leadership [in Korean, 2012], and a monograph “The UN
Non-Proliferation Sanctions onNorth Korea” (2013).

HONG, Kyudok (홍규덕, 洪圭德)
Dr. Hong Kyudok is currently teaching at the Sookmyung
Women’s University and Pohang University of Science andTechnology. He is recently appointed by President Park as

Chairman of Foreign Affairs and Security Committee at the National Unification Advisory Council.
As an administrator, Dr. Hong has been serving various positions including Vice President, Dean of
Academic Affairs and College of Social Science at the University. Beyond the academia, he wasserving as Deputy Minister for Defense Reform, Ministry of National Defense from 2009 throughFebruary 2013. He became the first civilian scholar to be appointed as Deputy Minister in thehistory of Defense Ministry. He was also a member of ASEAN Regional Forum's EEP(Experts/Eminent Persons) and the CSCAP-Korea. He became the President of Korean Academic
Council to the United Nations System (KACUNS) in 2014. He is also a member of Seoul Forum forInternational Affairs and participated in various bilateral meetings and strategic dialogues. He
received his Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina in 1991 and researched at the American
University in Washington, D.C. as visiting professor in 2002. He is the author of many articles andbook chapters, and one of the active participants in international conferences and workshops on
security issues. He is the author of ASIA-PACIFIC ALLIANCES IN THE 21ST Century(2007) and wrote
Ph.D. dissertation on The unequal partner: The ROK-U.S. relations during the Vietnam War (1991)

JUNG, Jeawook (정재욱 鄭宰旭)
Dr. Jaewook Jung is an assistant professor in the Division of
Global Security Cooperation, Graduate School of International
Studies at Sookmyung Women's University. He received his
Master's in International Politics from State University of New
York and his Ph.D. in International Politics from Korea University.
His primary research interests focus on War & Peace, International
Conflict Resolution, and U.S.-ROK alliance. Related recent
publications include "The Contingency of North Korea and thePossibility of Applying R2P" (Journal of National Defense Studies,
2012, in Korean)

LEE, Han Hee (이한희, 李翰熙)
Dr. Hanhee Lee currently serves as Senior Advisor on Int’l andInter-Korean Cooperation of the GyeongGi-Do Provincial
Government of ROK and Adjuct Professor of School of Global
Service of Sookmyung Women’s University. Hanhee has worked
previously as Research Fellow of the Ash Center for Democratic
Governance and Innovation of Harvard University and theWeatherhead Center for Internaitonal Affairs of Harvard
University (Cambridge, US), Senior Research Fellow of theSamsung Economic Research Institute (Seoul, ROK), Monitoringand Evaluation Specialist of the World Bank (Washington, DC),and Fellow of the Committee of International Relations of the US House of Representatives(Washington, DC). Hanhee is a specialist of North Korea, Transition Economies of former
Communist Countries in Eastern Bloc and International Development Cooperation. Hanhee hasrecieved a B.A. from Korea University in 1998, Master’s in Pubic Policy from Harvard University in2002 and Ph.D in North Korean Studies from Kyungnam University in 2012.

LEE, Shin-wha (이신화, 李信和)
Dr. LEE Shin-wha, Professor of the Department of Political Scienceand International Relations, Korea University and UN
Secretary-General’s Advisory Group Member of Peacebuilding
Fund (PBF), received her Ph.D from the University of Maryland at
College and held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Harvard University.
She was a research associate at the World Bank, a special advisor
to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan’s Rwandan Independent
Inquiry, Chair's advisor of East Asian Vision Group(EAVG), a
visiting scholar at East Asian Studies Program, Princeton
University, a full-time visiting professor at School of International and Public Affairs(SIPA),
Columbia University, executive committee member of Academic Council on the UN
Studies(ACUNS), international board member of GR:EEN(Global Re-ordering: Evolution throughEuropean Networks), and vice president for international affairs at Korea University. She received
Nakasone Yasuhiro Award of Excellence in 2008 and is an international advisory member of
Asia-Pacific Center for Responsibility to Protect. Her numerous publications cover the fields ofglobal security including UN PKO and humanitarian intervention, and East Asian foreign policy
and multilateral security

PARK, Heung-Soon (박흥순, 朴興淳 )Dr. Heung-Soon Park is currently professor and Dean of the
Graduate School, SunMoon University. Prof. Park also serves as
Vice-President of the UNA-ROK, Executive Member of the
UNESCO-Korean Commission, and Advisory Committee Member ofthe Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is an author of several
books, including International Organizations: United Nations,
Multilateral diplomacy, and Korea (2015), and has published many
articles on the broad topics in the United Nations, internationalorganizations, multilateral diplomacy and global governance.

SOH, Changrok (서창록, 徐昌綠)
Dr. Soh, Changrok is Professor at the Graduate School ofInternational Studies (GSIS), Korea University. After graduatedfrom the Department of International Relations at Seoul National
University, he received his Ph.D. as well as MALD from the
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. He hadserved as Dean of Graduate School of International Studies andDivision of International Studies at Korea University in 2006-08. Dr.
Soh is currently a member of UN Human Rights Council Advisory

Committee and President of Human Asia (formally, the Asia Center for Human Rights). He is alsoan International Human Rights Committee Commissioner of National Human Rights Commissionof Korea. His most recent publications include, “Cosmopolitan Memories in East Asia: Revisiting
and Reinventing the Second World War,” “Multilateral Cooperation to Advocate Human Security
in East Asia,” “Regional Governance of North Korean Human Rights,” “The Refugee Act of Korea:
The Limits of Civil Society,” “Extending Corporate Liability of Human Rights Violations in Asia,”SUN, Joun-yung (선준영, 宣晙英)
Ambassador Sun Joun-yung is currently a Chair Professor of the
Graduate School of Kyungnam University. Mr. Sun was Korea’s
Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 200 through2003, and before that he served as Ambassador to Czechoslovakia
from 1990 to 1993 and to Geneva from 1996 to 1998. Ambassador
Sun was Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade from 1998 to2000, and Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Affairs from 1993
to 1996. He received education from the College of Law, Seoul
National University, and the Graduate School of International
Service of the American University in Washington D.C. He served
as Vice-President and CEO of the United Nations Association of Korea from 2006 to 2013, andnow is a senior scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholar since 2010.

SONG, Young Hoon (송영훈, 宋映勳)
Dr. Young Hoon Song is Assistant Professor of the Department of
Political Science at Kangwon National University. Before joining
the university, he had worked for the Korea Institute for National
Unification and the Institute for Peace and Unification Studies atSeoul National University. He received his Ph.D. from the
University of South Carolina in 2011. His research interests lie ininternational relations theory, conflict and forced migration,international human rights and humanitarianism, andinter-Korean
relations.
Hisrecentpublication
includes“International Humanitarianism and Refugee Protection: Consequences of Labeling and
Politicization” and “Conflict, International Response, and Forced Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa,
1980-2007.”

GUESTSYANG Jiemian(楊潔勉)
Dr. Jiemian YANG was the President of the Shanghai Institutes
for International Studies, SIIS (2007-2013) and now is Senior
Fellow and Chairman of the SIIS Council of Academic Affairs andthe Shanghai Municipal Government’s Counselor. Concurrently,
Dr. Yang is a member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Group of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, Vice President of China
Association of American Studies, President of Shanghai Societyof International Strategic Studies. He has been directors of manynational and Shanghai key projects of social sciences. Dr. Yangspecializes in the studies of international system and major
power relation, and the author or co-authors of two dozens of
relevant books and more than one hundred professional essays
either in Chinese or English.
Dr. Roger Coate
Dr. Roger Coate is Paul D. Coverdell Professor of Public Policy at Georgia College & State
University and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science and former Director of the
Richard L. Walker Institute of International Studies at the University of South Carolina. He
received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University and holds a M.A. from Johns Hopkins University’s
School of Advanced International Studies. His research and teaching interests focus on leadershipand the role of the United States in the UN system, international organization reform,
international administration, the role of civil society in global governance. He is author or
co-author of more than a dozen books and several hundred articles, chapters, reports, andpapers. He currently serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the Academic Council on
the United Nations System (ACUNS), where he also chairs the Subcommittee on Governance.
Alistair D. Edgar
Dr. Alistair D. Edgar serves as the Executive Director of the
Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS),
having returned in August 2010 to the position he held
previously in 2003-2008. He is co-director of the Laurier
Centre for Military, Strategic and Disarmament Studies(LCMSDS), and Associate Professor of Political Science at Wilfrid
Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, where he has worked
since 1993.Outside of the university, Dr. Edgar is president of the
New Delhi, India-based International Jurist Organization (IJO);
he is a National Board member of the United Nations
Association in Canada (UNAC); and sits on the board of the Canadian Landmines Foundation as
representative of the LCMSDS.Dr Edgar’s current research interests involve issues of transitional
justice in war-to-peace transitions and post-conflict peace building. He has conductedindependent research fieldwork on this subject in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Kosovo, and northern
Uganda, as well as with the UN DPKO and Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General.Dr. Edgar
holds a BA Honours in History from Cambridge University (Sidney Sussex College) (1983), a MA in
Political Science from the University of British Columbia (1985), and a PhD in Political Sciencefrom Queen’s University, Canada (1993). He was the John M. Olin Doctoral Fellow in Economics
and National Security at the Olin Institute, Centre for International Affairs, Harvard University in
1992-93, and completed a Certificate in Russian Studies at Moscow State University in 1995.

OBSERVERS
GUO Fengcheng(郭峰鋮)Dr. Guo Fengcheng, born in Shanxi Province in 1966, is member ofCommunist Party of China and senior economist. He is Vice
President of Special Fudan of Harmonious Culture with Associationof Chinese Cultural Promotion, Vice Chairman of Zhongdao Group,
Executive Board Member of the United Nations Association ofChina (UNA-China), and Vice President of Shanghai UN Research
Association. He organized “culture for Harmony – Chinese
Calligraphy Exhibition” at UN Headquarter in New York in 2012, theUNAOC Asia South Pacific Regional Consultation Shanghai
Conference in 2012, and UN Conference on Global Governance inShanghai in 2014. Mr. Guo is one of the sponsors of the China
International Civil Servants Capability Training Program. He has edited and published two books
entitled “UN and Dialogue among Civilizations” and “China, UN and Global Governance”.
GUO Yi(國懿)Dr. Yi GUO majored in China Studies and German Studies from Zhejiang
University, China. He studied at Beijing International Studies University(B.A), Free University of Berlin, Germany (M.A.) in succession andreceived his PhD in International Politics from Free University of Berlin,
Germany in 2012. From 2013 till now he works as lecturer at School ofInternational Studies, Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. He was visiting
scholar at Technical University of Berlin. His research interests are
International Politics and Sino-European Relations.

HAN Rong(韓榮)Ms. Han Rong is Ph.D Candidate of Mass Communications in
Macquarie University (Australia); MA of Mass Communications in
Leicester University (U.K.); BA of English in Xi'an International Studies
University (China). Ms. Han Rong is a lecturer of NorthwesternPolytechnical University, the instructor of NPU Model United Nations, a fellow of Fulbright
Visiting Scholar program (U.S.A).Her research direction is the soft power and United Nations.

QI Huaigao (祁懷高)Huaigao Qi is Associate Professor of Center for UN Studies
at Fudan University’s Institute of International Studies. Dr.
Qi’s major research areas are International Organization,
Asia Pacific international relations, China’s politics anddiplomacy, and global governance. Dr. Qi was a Visiting
Fellow of Ash Center for Democratic Governance andInnovation at Harvard University’s Kennedy School ofGovernment from January 2013 to December 2013; aChinese member of the East Asian Seminar on the UN
System in Osaka in December 2011; and a Postdoctoral
Fellow in Political Science at Fudan University’s School of International Relations and Public
Affairs from July 2008 to September 2010. Qi Huaigao received his Ph. D. in World History at
Wuhan University in June 2007. Dr. Qi’s books in Chinese include: China’s Peripheral Security and
Its Neighboring Diplomacy against the Backdrop of Its Rising (Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company,2014); Building East Asia's Future: China-U.S. Institutional Balancing and Transformation of East
Asia System (Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, 2011).

QIAN SIYUN（錢思韻）is a researcher in Macro & Strategy of Great wall Securities Co.,Ltd of China. She received her Msc. Economics from the
University of Leeds, UK, in 2014. Before her pursuit in academics,
she had several years of work experience in Chinese capital
market. She is good at analyzing global political and economic
issues. She has published many articles, ranging from global
economic crisis, industrial economy to start-ups. She had athorough idea on free trade zone and the effect of RMB's
internalization. She is currently interested in the topics of TPP
and " One Belt and One Road". The geopolitics of China in Asia
and related economic effect is her most recent working paper.

TANG Di (唐棣)Ms. Tand Di, born in Sichuan province in 1987, graduated from the
Law School, Sichuan University (SCU) and obtained a master
degree in International Law in 2013, who once as a exchange
student studied at Nanterre University in Paris (Université de Paris
X) in 2007-2008. After graduation, she joined in the Office ofGraduate Student Affairs, at SCU, working on facilitating total
development of graduate students, especially to broaden theirinternational perspective, provide better understanding of issues
on international relations and foster skills in diplomacy andcompromise, by developing and implementing a variety of
programs and activities. She serves as the faculty advisor of Model United Nations Team at SCU
and assists to organize “Model United Nations” activities.
XUE Lei(薛磊)Dr. XUE Lei is a research fellow of the Center for Maritime andPolar Studies, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies. He
got a Ph.D. degree for international law at the East China
University of Political Science and Law in 2010. His main
research fields include peacekeeping, peace building, and UN
Security Council. He was a visiting scholar of German Institutefor International and Security Affairs (SWP) in 2011 and the
Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) in 2013. His recent
articles include “China as a permanent member of the UN
Security Council”, “The global network for preventive
diplomacy and China’s persuasive diplomacy”, “China’s development-oriented peacekeeping
strategy in Africa”, etc.
YANG Huiying （杨惠英）Yang Huiying, born in Guilin, Guangxi Province in 1973, is anassociate professor in School of Foreign Languages ofNorthwestern Polytechnical University, teaching Intercultural
Communication for undergraduates, Context and Translation for
MTI graduates and Introduction of Text Translation for thegraduates of Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. She got
the bachelor degree of English Education from Shaanxi Normal
University in 1997 and the master degree of Foreign Linguistics
and Applied Linguistics, majoring in translation study, from
Northwestern Polytechnical University in 2001. She was a visiting
teacher in Karlstad University during 2007-2008. She once attended The 6th ICTATLL International
Conference “Application of Corpus and ICT for Language Studies and Teaching” in Kyoto in 2009and published “A Discussion of English Learning and Teaching in China” in Corpus, ICT, andLanguage Education (The United Kingdom at the University of Strathclyde publishing,2010).Besides many articles published in different journals, she has taken charge of many fundprograms at the university level and the provincial level. She is currently a supervisor of
postgraduates, a supervisor for NPUMNU team and a translator for news of NPU English website.

YU Hongyuan(於宏源)
YU Hongyuan，PH.D (Chinese University of Hong Kong), is anprofessor and Director of Institute for Comparative Politics andPublic Policy at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies.
He is also an honorary fellow of Center for International Energy
Strategy Studies，Renmin University of China, an visiting fellow for
Sustainable Developmental Research Center of China Academy forSocial Science, and an honorary fellow of the Centre for Asian PacificStudies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He got his Ph.D degreefrom Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Mphil degree from Renmin
University of China .From 1998 to 2000, he worked with theadministrative centre for China’s Agenda 21 at the Ministry of Science and Technology. Yu Hongyuan isthe authorof numerous publications, including most recently Global Warming and China's
Environmental Diplomacy in Nova Science Publishers (2008).

ZHANG Jiao (張皎)Zhang Jiao is a Chinese Post-Doctor researcher and lecturer ofInternational Law Department at East China University of Political
Science and Law. She holds a PhD in Law Degree from the University of
Macau and awarded Outstanding Academic Achievements of the EU
Studies Association in Macau. Her research interests are focused on
the European Union Law (External Relations Law of the EU inparticular), Legal framework of China’s foreign relations, and Law of
the International Organization. She is serving as a member of theCouncil at EU Legal Studies Association of Chinese Association for EU
Studies.