Prof. Zhao Long is Director of the Institute for International Strategic and Security Studies at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS). His research focuses on global governance, major power relations, and maritime and polar affairs. He has published extensively in leading academic journals and his policy recommendations have drawn considerable attention from policymakers.

He was a visiting scholar at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) in Berlin and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. From 2015 to 2016, he was seconded to the Department of Treaty and Law at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China.