Shen Dingli is a professor and former executive dean at Fudan University’s Institute of International Studies, and former director of Fudan’s Center for American Studies.  He is also an Honorary Visiting Professor of Washington University in St. Louis.  His research and publication covers China-US security relations, regional security and international strategy, arms control and nonproliferation, foreign and defense policy of China and the US etc.  He is Vice President of Chinese Association of South Asian Studies, and Shanghai Association of American Studies.  He received his Ph.D. in physics from Fudan in 1989 and did post-doc in arms control at Princeton University from 1989-1991.  He was an Eisenhower Fellow in 1996, and advised in 2002 the then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan for his strategic planning.  He is on the Global Council of Asia Society.  He has co-edited 17 books and published over 2,500 papers and articles worldwide.