Shen Dingli is a professor and associate dean at Fudan University’s Institute of International 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 publications cover 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 the Chinese Association of South Asian Studies, Shanghai Association of International Studies, Shanghai Association of International Strategic Studies, Shanghai Association of American Studies, and Shanghai UN Research Association. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Fudan in 1989 and did a post-doc in arms control at Princeton University from 1989 to 1991. He was an Eisenhower Fellow in 1996 and advised UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in 2002 on his strategic planning for his second term. He is on the Global Council of the Asia Society, and is appointed by Shanghai Municipality and the Hangzhou 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.