Participant Biographies

Jia Qingguo

Jia Qingguo

Professor, School of International Studies, Peking University
Plenary Session 1 - "World in Turbulence"

Dr. Jia Qingguo is a professor and former Dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University. He has taught at the University of Vermont, Cornell University, the University of California at San Diego, the University of Sydney in Australia as well as at Peking University. He was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution between 1985 and 1986 and a Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies (CNAPS) Fellow at the Brookings Institution between 2001 and 2002. He is a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. He is also Vice President of the Chinese American Studies Association, Vice President of the China International Relations Studies Association, and Vice President of the Chinese Japanese Studies Association. He has published extensively on U.S.-China relations, relations across the Taiwan Strait, Chinese foreign policy, and Chinese politics. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1988.