Dr. Liou is a professor of diplomacy and director of the Center for WTO Studies in the College of International Affairs at National Chengchi University in Taiwan. He has been a visiting fellow at the University of Melbourne (2001-2002), the University of Calgary (2002), Australian National University (2006-2007), Masaryk University（2008 and 2009）in the Czech Republic, Hallym University of Graduate Studies (2010), and at the Centre for Dialogue at La Trobe University (2011) under the Executive Endeavour Award of the Australian Government and Kyungpook National University. He is the author or co-author of multiple books on Korea. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona.