Professor of School of Social Sciences and Institute of International Relations, Tsinghua University, Executive Director of Belt and Road Institute of Strategic Studies, Tsinghua University, Deputy Director of Think Tank Research Center, Tsinghua University, and Vice Chairman of the China-Europe Relations Council. He is also the chief editor of Silk Road Encyclopedia, vice chairman of the Belt and Road Research Branch of China Association of Higher Education, executive director of Chinese Association for History of International Communist Movement, visiting professor at the Centre for Italian Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Council Member of the British Studies Association, and director of the Tsinghua-Carnegie Institute of China, a leading global think tank, and member of the core team of the high-end think tank of the Central Compilation and Administration Bureau. His main research interests include Belt and Road Initiative, International Relations, comparative political parties and government, European party politics, social democracy, and Sino-European relations. He has published several books, including Globalization and the Transformation of Social Democracy in Europe, The Transformation of the Italian Communist Party and Political Change in Italy, translations such as European Politics in Transition, and hundreds of academic articles and commentaries.