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Participant Biographies

Qin Yaqing

Executive Vice President and Professor, China Foreign Affairs University

Dr. Qin is the Executive Vice President and Professor of International Studies at China Foreign Affairs University; Vice-president of the China National Association for International Studies; and China Country Coordinator for the Network of East Asia Think Tanks (NEAT). He was on the resource team for the UN High Panel for Challenges, Threats, and Changes (2003) and worked as Assistant to the Chinese Eminent Person, China-ASEAN Eminent Persons Group (2005). His academic interest includes international relations theory, East Asian regional cooperation, and China foreign policy. He served as member of the editorial board of Global Governance and sits on the international advisory board for the policy analysis series of the West-East Center. He received his Ph. D. in political science from the University of Missouri-Columbia and received training in international economy at Antwerp University, Belgium.