Dr. Liu is currently a professor, director of the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, and director of Center for Korea Studies at SASS. He is concurrently a fellow at the Center for Korean Peninsula Studies, China Academy of Social Sciences, and the Center for Korea Studies, Fudan University. Dr. Liu holds a B.A. from the Nanjing Foreign Languages Institute, a Master’s of Law from the International Politics Department at Fudan University, and a Ph.D. from the World Economy Institute at Fudan University. He has also been a visiting scholar at Columbia University, Seoul National University, and Stanford University.