Zhu Feng, Executive Director of the China Collaborative Innovation Center for South China Sea Studies, Dean of the Institute of International Relations, Nanjing University, Distinguished Professor, and Special Expert of the China Forum. He previously served as Deputy Director of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Peking University, and Director of the International Security Studies Programme at the School of International Relations, Peking University. His research focuses on East Asian regional security, China–United States relations, Chinese diplomacy and international security strategy, maritime security, the South China Sea issue and major-power relations. Professor Zhu Feng is a leading middle‑aged and young scholar in China’s international relations community. He serves as Vice President of the China National Association for International Studies, Advisory Expert on Neighbouring Maritime Issues for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Council Member of the Belt and Road Think Tank Cooperation Alliance, and Executive Director of the China Marine Development Research Association. He has been a Visiting Scholar at renowned international academic institutions including the Brookings Institution, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Tulane University in the United States, and Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. His representative monographs include:

America, China and the Struggle for the World Order (co-edited with Professor G. John Ikenberry and Professor Wang Jisi, Macmillan Press, 2015);

Maritime Power in the 21st Century: Historical Experience and China’s Challenges (editor, World Affairs Press, 2016);

International Relations Theory and East Asian Security (China Renmin University Press, 2007);