Mick Cox
Mick Coxwas appointed, in 2003, to a Chair in the Department of International Relations at the London School of Economics. In 2004 he helped establish the Cold War Studies Centre, and in 2008 he co-founded LSE IDEAS, a foreign policy Centre based at the School, which aims to bring the academic and policy words together. In a 2012 international survey, LSE IDEAS was ranked 4th in the world amongst the best university affiliated Think Tanks. Since joining the LSE he has also acted as Academic Director of both the LSE/PKU Summer School and of the Executive Summer School. In 2011 he launched a new Executive Masters in Global Strategy designed to teach senior foreign policy practitioners.
Professor Cox has held several senior professional positions in the field of international relations including Chair of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR); member of the Executive Committee of the British International Studies Association and of The Irish National Committee for the Study of International Affairs; Associate Research Fellow Chatham House, London; Director of the David Davies Memorial Institute for the Study of International Politics, Aberystwyth; Senior Fellow Nobel Institute, Oslo; Chair of the United States Discussion Group at the Royal Institute of International Affairs; and Transatlantic Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute London. He also serves on the editorial board of several academic journals and has been Editor of several leading journals in IR, including the Review of International Studies; International Relations; Cold War History; and International Politics. He is now general editor of two successful book series: Palgrave Rethinking World Politics; and Routledge, Cold War History.
Hu Shuli
Hu Shuli is the editor-in-chief of Caixin Media and the dean of the School of Communication and Design at Sun Yat-sen University.
Founder of Caijing magazine in 1998, Ms. Hu provided the leadership that brought Caijing to its eminent position as one of China’s most authoritative business publications. At the editorial helm for 11 years, Hu Shuli made her departure in 2009 to create the breakthrough new media group, Caixin Media.
Ms Hu began her journalism career as an international editor and reporter for Workers’ Daily in 1982. She accepted a position in 1992 as international editor and chief reporter at China Business Times, resigning in 1998 to start Caijing. In addition, Ms. Hu served as financial news chief for Phoenix TV in 2001.
Internationally recognized for her achievements in journalism, Ms. Hu was awarded the 2012 Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism. She was listed among Top 100 Influential People of 2011 by Time magazine. The Caixin editorial team under her leadership won the 2011 Shorenstein Journalism Award from Stanford University. The same year, she won Taiwan’s Hsing Yun Journalism Award.
She was twice named by one of Foreign Policy magazine’s Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2009 and 2010. In 2007, she received the Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University. In 2006, Ms Hu was called China’s most powerful commentator bythe Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal cited her as one of Asia’s Ten Women to Watch. Ms Hu was named International Editor of the Year by the World Press Review in 2003 and one of BusinessWeek magazine’s Fifty Stars of Asia in 2001.
Currently, Ms. Hu serves on the board of directors for the International Women’s Media Foundation and is a member of the Reuters Editorial Advisory Board. She is also a regional advisor for the International Center for Journalists.
Ms. Hu studied development economics as a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University in 1994. She earned a bachelor’s in journalism degree from the People’s University of China in 1982 and an EMBA through Fordham University and the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University in 2002.
Paul Kelly
Paul Kelly is currently Vice President (Pro-Director) for Teaching and Learning at LSE. He joined the School in 1995 after teaching for five years at the University of Wales Swansea. Prior to that he held a visiting research fellowship at the University of Chicago Law School and at the Bentham Project, University College London. He graduated from York University with a First in Philosophy and an MA in Political Theory. His PhD is from the University of London, where he spent two years at LSE and a further year at UCL.
Paul's current research interests include political Ideas in British politics and policy-Making including Multiculturalism; group rights and national identity; equality of outcomes and equality of opportunity and theories of social justice; theories and concepts in modern political theory including especially the development and distinctiveness of British Political Ideas from the seventeenth-century; and political ideologies and political ideas from the Ancient Greeks to the present.
Justin Yifu Lin
Mr. Lin is professor and honorary dean, National School of Development at Peking University. He was the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank, 2008-2012. Prior to joining the Bank, Mr. Lin served for 15 years as Founding Director and Professor of the China Centre for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University and is the author of 24 books including Against the Consensus: Reflections on the Great Recession, The Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off, New Structural Economics: A Framework for Rethinking Development and Policy, Demystifying the Chinese Economy, Benti and Changwu: Dialogues on Methodology in Economics, and Economic Development and Transition: Thought, Strategy, and Viability. He is a member of the Standing Committee and Vice Chairman of Economic Council, Chinese People’s Political Consultation Conference.
He was Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce. He served on several national and international committees, leading groups, and councils on development policy, technology, and environment including: Eminent Persons Council of the World Bank, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Steering Committee, the UN Millennium Task Force on Hunger; the Eminent Persons Group of the Asian Development Bank; the National Committee on United States-China Relations; the Global Agenda Council on the International Monetary System; Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee; and the Hong Kong-U.S. Business Council. He received honorary doctoral degrees from Universite D’Auvergne, Fordham University, Nottingham University, City University of Hong Kong, London School of Economics, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences for Developing World.
Munir Majid
Tan Sri Dr Munir Majid is Visiting Senior Fellow, Southeast Asia International Affairs Programme at LSE IDEAS. Dr. Majid obtained a B.Sc (Econ) and his Ph.D in International Relations from the London School of Economic and Political Science (LSE). He taught in the Department of International Relations at the LSE from 1972-75. He worked for Daiwa Europe in the City from 1975-78. He was Group Editor of the New Straits Times (NST) in Malaysia, Executive Chairman of CIMB, now Southeast Asia's leading investment bank, and founder Executive Chairman of the Malaysian Securities Commission where he served from 1993-99 during which time he was Chairman of the Emerging Markets Committee of IOSCO (International Organization of Securities Commissions). He wrote a regular column for the NST from 2001-04 and is now an occasional contributor to The Edge, Malaysia's leading business weekly, covering mainly contemporary economic and political issues. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the LSE in 2005. Dr. Majid stepped down as Chairman of Malaysia Airlines at the end of July 2011 after seven years, but maintains a corporate presence as Chairman of Bank Muamalat Malaysia, an Islamic financial institution.
Bingchun Meng
Dr Bingchun Meng is a lecturer in the department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has a BA in Chinese Language and Literature (1997) and an MA in Comparative Literature (2000) from Nanjing University, China, and obtained her PhD in Mass Communication (2006) from the Pennsylvania State University, USA. Before joining LSE, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, where she also taught classes on Chinese media. Her major research interests include the political economy of Chinese media and information industries in a globalising era; the implications of copyright regulation on communication networks and creative activities; and contextualised analysis of new media and communication technology in the complex of political, economic and cultural developments.
Danny Quah
Danny Quah is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also a Senior Fellow at LSE IDEAS. He currently serves on Malaysia's National Economic Advisory Council. In 2006-2009 he was Head of Department of Economics at LSE. Prof. Quah holds degrees from Princeton and Harvard, and was Assistant Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining the LSE. In 2010 he was Tan Chin Tuan Visiting Professor in the Economics Department at the National University of Singapore, and Visiting Professor at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University. Quah has consulted for among others the World Bank, the Bank of England, and the Monetary Authority of Singapore. He is a Member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Economic Imbalances. Danny's research is now on the global economy, economic growth and development, income inequality, international economic relations, economic geography, and new technologies.
Arne Westad
Arne Westad is director of LSE IDEAS, a centre he founded with Professor Michael Cox in 2008. Westad is Professor of International History at LSE and an expert in contemporary international affairs. His work deals mainly with twentieth century history and the history of China. He is also a frequent commentator on current international issues, especially with regard to East Asia. Professor Westad’s new book, Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750, has just been published by Basic Books in the United States and Bodley Head in the UK. His previous book, The Global Cold War, won the Bancroft Prize and several other awards, and has been published in fourteen languages.Westad is now working on a general history of the Cold War in its twentieth century context and a book on China’s transformation from the Cultural Revolution to the era of reform
Arne Westad was born in Norway in 1960. He studied history, philosophy and modern languages at the University of Oslo and received his PhD in history from the University of North Carolina. Professor Westad served for eight years as Director of Research at the Norwegian Nobel Institute, and has held visiting fellowships at Cambridge University and New York University. In addition to his LSE duties, he is currently a visiting research professor at Hong Kong University. Professor Westad served as Head of the LSE’s International History Department from 2004 to 2007.
Zhang Jian
Dr Zhang Jian is an Assoicate Professor at Peking University's School of Government. He joined Peking Univeristy's faculty in 2007, returnign to the university where he completed his undergraduate studies. Zhang Jian received his PhD in political science from Columbia University in the City of New York, USA. His research interests include ethnic minority issues in China, identity politics, political participation and state/nation building in the developing world. He teaches Chinese politics, American politics and ethnic studies at Peking University. Zhang has served as the Editor for Strategy and Management for the China Society of Strategy and Management, as well as writing for the Hearland, Eurasian Review of Geopolitics, amongst others.