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The Third Annual China Symposium: "Becoming a Stakeholder: China in International Affairs"
Friday, April 20, 2007

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Lee C. Bollinger is President of Columbia University in New York City and a member of the faculty of the Law School. He is a graduate of the University of Oregon and Columbia Law School, where he was an Articles Editor of the Law Review. After serving as law clerk for Judge Wilfred Feinberg on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Chief Justice Warren Burger on the United States Supreme Court, he joined the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School in 1973. In 1987 he was named the Dean of the University of Michigan Law School, a position he held for seven years. He became Provost of Dartmouth College and Professor of Government in July 1994 and was named the twelfth President of the University of Michigan in November 1996. His primary teaching and scholarly interests are focused on free speech and First Amendment issues, and he has published numerous books, articles, and essays in scholarly journals on these and other subjects. Three highly acclaimed contributions to First Amendment literature include Eternally Vigilant: Free Speech in the Modern Era ( University of Chicago Press, 2001), Images of a Free Press (University of Chicago Press, 1991), and The Tolerant Society: Freedom of Speech and Extremist Speech in America (Oxford University Press, 1986). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society. President Bollinger is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees and is an honorary fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. He serves on the boards of the Kresge Foundation and the Royal Shakespeare Company of Great Britain. President Bollinger is the recipient of many awards. For his national leadership in defending affirmative action in higher education, he has received the National Humanitarian Award from the National Conference for Community and Justice and the National Equal Justice Award from the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. For his service to higher education, especially on matters of freedom of speech and diversity, he was given the Clark Kerr Award, the highest award conferred by the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley.

Andrea Bartoli is the founding director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution and has been a member of the faculty at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs since 1994. Between 1992 and 1999 he was also the associate director of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University. Before coming to Columbia, Bartoli was a lecturer at the University of Rome–Tor Vergata (1987–92) and the director of the Center for the Study of Social Programs (1986–92). He is the coeditor of Somalia, Rwanda and Beyond: The Role of International Media in Wars and International Crisis (Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, 1995). Bartoli's primary interests focus on the emergence of peace and its sustainability, through both preventive and systemic approaches. His most recent publication is "Christianity and Peacebuilding" in Religion and Peacebuilding, edited by H. Coward and G. Smith (State University of New York Press, 2004).

Myron L. Cohen is the Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. He has conducted extensive fieldwork and other research in Taiwan and mainland China. One focus of his field research is examining variations and uniformities in traditional family organization and in the patterns of change during modern times. Other major research interests in the context of social change include Chinese kinship, popular religion, community organization, the interconnections between local society and state organization and ideology, the cultural foundations of modern Chinese nationalism, social stratification, and economic culture. Cohen received his Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University in 1967, after having joined the Columbia faculty in 1966.

Jude Howell is Professor and Director of the Centre for Civil Society at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her recent books include Gender and Civil Society (co-edited with Diane Mulligan); (Routledge, 2005), Civil Society and Development (co-authored with Jenny Pearce); (Lynne Rienner Inc., 2002), and Governance in China (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004). She has written extensively on issues relating to civil society, governance, development policy and gender and much of her empirical work focuses on China. Her current research projects include female rural political participation in China, with case-studies of Hunan and Shandong provinces, labor organizing in China and organizing around marginalized interests in China. She is currently directing a £5.24 million Economic Social Research Council research program on Non-governmental Public Action. Her own project under this program investigates the effects of the increasing securitization of aid policy in the post-911 context on civil societies in the South, including case-studies of India, Afghanistan and Kenya.

Yanzhong Huang is Assistant Professor and inaugural Director of the Center for Global Health Studies at the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University, where he developed the first academic concentration among American schools of international affairs that explicitly addresses the foreign policy and security aspects of health issues. He is also the founding editor of Global Health Governance, a peer-reviewed, open-access online journal for the new health security paradigm. He has written extensively on global health governance, health security, health politics in China, Chinese politics, and U.S.-China relations. He has testified before Congressional Committees and is frequently consulted by major media outlets, pharmaceutical firms, and governmental and nongovernmental organizations on global health issues and China. He is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations, an Associate Fellow of the Asian Society, and a member the Security Experts Council of the Gerson Lehrman Group. He was a visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago in 2000.

David Michael Lampton is Dean of Faculty, George and Sadie Hyman Professor and Director of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and Senior International Advisor on China for Akin Gump, Strauss, Hauer, & Feld. Before assuming those posts he was president of the National Committee on United States-China Relations in New York City from 1988-1997. From May 1998 to May 2006 he also was affiliated with The Nixon Center as the founding director of its Chinese Studies Program. Prior to 1988, Dr. Lampton was founding director of the China Policy Program at the American Enterprise Institute and associate professor of political science at Ohio State University.Lampton is the author of numerous books and articles on Chinese domestic and foreign affairs. Dr. Lampton received his Ph.D. and undergraduate degrees from Stanford University, and is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Far Eastern Studies. Dr. Lampton has lived in the PRC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong where he was a Fulbright dissertation research grantee in the early 1970s. Lampton consults with the Aspen Institute Congressional Program, the Kettering Foundation, and various government agencies and corporations. Dr. Lampton is a member of the Executive Committee of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was elected to the Board of Trustees of Colorado College in 1999. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Asia Foundation, Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund, the Yale-China Association, the U.S.-China Legal Cooperation Fund, and the Advisory Board of the National Bureau of Asian Research. His most recent books and monographs include, Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing United States–China Relations 1989-2000 (University of California Press, 2001; Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2003) and (editor) The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Era of Reform, 1978-2000 (Stanford University Press, 2001). He specializes in Chinese domestic politics and leadership, Chinese foreign policy, the policy–making process, and U.S.–China relations. He currently is writing a book on Chinese power entitled, The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and Minds.

Kenneth Lieberthal holds several positions at the University of Michigan: William Davidson Professor of Business Administration at the Ross School of Business, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Political Science, Distinguished Fellow and Director for China at the William Davidson Institute, and Research Associate of the Center for Chinese Studies. He has been on the Michigan faculty since 1983. He earlier taught at Swarthmore College from 1972-83. He has a B.A. from Dartmouth College, and two M.A.'s and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University. Dr. Lieberthal is also Nonresident Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies of the Brookings Institution, where he was a Visiting Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies for November-December 2000 and again for the 2004-2005 academic year. Dr. Lieberthal served as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Asia on the National Security Council from August 1998 to October 2000. Dr. Lieberthal has written and edited nearly a dozen books and authored about five dozen published articles. Dr. Lieberthal was Director of Michigan's Center for Chinese Studies from 1986-89. He has consulted widely on Chinese and Asian affairs and serves or has served as a consultant for the U.S. Departments of State, Defense, and Commerce, the World Bank, the Kettering Foundation, the Aspen Institute, the United Nations Association, and corporations in the private sector. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C., and a number of professional organizations. Dr. Lieberthal is Senior Director for Stonebridge International LLC and serves or has served a s a member of the Boards of Directors/Advisors of the National Committee on US‑China Relations, the US-China Policy Foundation, the National Bureau of Asian Research, the U.S. Advisory Board of the Council on East Asian Affairs (Seoul), the CSIS-IIE China Futures Initiative, the Asian Studies Visiting Committee at Harvard University, the East Asian Institute of the National University of Singapore, The Pyle Center, the China Vitae web site, the Research Center for Contemporary China at Peking University, the Forum on Northeast Asia Security of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy , and as Fellow of the Beijing University Political Development and Government Management Research Institute . He serves on the editorial boards of Asia Policy,China: An International Journal, The China Quarterly, The China Economic Review, Foreign Policy Bulletin, the Journal ofContemporary China and the Journal of International Business Education. In 2004 he received the University of Michigan’s Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award. Since 2004 he has served on the Department of Defense Joint Strategy Review Senior Review Panel.

James R. Lilley  was born in China’s Shandong province in 1928 and remained in the country through his childhood as his father was employed by Standard Oil. Lilley earned his BA from Yale, and furthered his graduate work at Columbia and Georgetown, earning his MA from George Washington University. He served as Private in the US Army, advancing to First Lieutenant in the US Air Force. After his time in the military, Lilley worked for the CIA for over 25 years, serving as a national intelligence officer for China. His commercial work includes time with United Technologies and Hunt Oil Company. Lilley served as Director of the American Institute in Taiwan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, and US Ambassador to Korea and to China. Later, Lilley served as a member of the National Security Council staff and Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. Ambassador Lilley was an Adjunct Professor at SAIS, Johns Hopkins, and served as a Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He has edited numerous books, including Crisis in the Taiwan Strait, and has authored China Hands: Nine Decades Of Adventure, Espionage, And Diplomacy In Asia, which has been published in English, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.

Zhenmin Liu is a native of Shanxi Province. He graduated from the Department of English Language and Literature of Peking University in 1978 and from the Law School of Peking University with a LLM degree in 1981.Liu joined the foreign service in January 1982, serving first as a staff member for the Department of Treaty and Law of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China (MFA) until 1984. Following this post he served as Attache, and later Third Secretary of the Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations until 1988. From 1988 Ambassador Liu was theThird Secretary, and later the Deputy Division Director of Department of Treaty and Law of the MFA when he moved on to become Second and then First Secretary of Permanent Mission of China to the UN Office at Geneva and Other International Organizations in Switzerland until 1995, advancing to Counselor in 1996. From 1998 till 2003, Ambassador Liu was the Deputy Director-General of Department of Treaty and Law of the MFA, becoming Director-General in 2003. In June of 2006, Liu was named Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Deputy Permanent Representative of China to the UN, and maintains the post to the present day.

Xiaobo Lü is a Professor of Political Science at Barnard College and Columbia University, and is the most recent former Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. He teaches courses on Chinese politics, East Asian political economy, and comparative politics. Lü’s research interests include post-socialist political economies, political corruption and good governance, politics of regulation, and government-business relations. He has published widely on these subjects and consults for business firms, civic groups, and government agencies. He is the author of the book Cadres and Corruption (Stanford University Press, 2000). His recent book (with Thomas Bernstein) is on the political and economic changes in the Chinese countryside, Taxation without Representation in Contemporary Rural China (Cambridge University Press, 2003). He was Senior Visiting Fellow at the Research Institute of Trade and Economy, Japan in 2001 and 2002. In 2003-04, he was a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, Jiaotong University in Shanghai, and Senior Research Fellow at City University of Hong Kong. In 2004, he also lectured at Sciences-Po, Paris I-Sorbonne, and EHESS in Paris. Currently he holds adjunct professorship at several universities in China and serves on the editorial boards of numerous international scholarly journals. Professor Lü is a member of Council on Foreign Relations, Committee of 100, and the National Committee on US-China Relations. He is a regular commentator on China and US-China relations on PBS, CNN, BBC, and NPR and has delivered speeches and briefings to organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Asia Foundation, the Asia Society, World Affairs Council, National Committee on US-China Relations, American Center for International Leadership, Asia Society, the China Institute of America, and the Japan Society. He received his PhD degree in political science in 1994 from the University of California, Berkeley.

Edward C. Luck is Director of the Center on International Organization and Professor of Practice in International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. A past President and CEO of the United Nations Association of the USA and one of the architects of the UN reform efforts from 1995-97, he has published widely on UN affairs, US foreign policy, and a range of security and political issues. Among his books are United Nations Security Council: Practice and Promise (Routledge, 2006), with Michael Doyle, International Law and Organization: Closing the Compliance Gap (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), and Mixed Messages: American Politics and International Organization, 1919-1999 (Brookings, 1999).

George J. Mitchell served as the United States Senator from Maine from 1980-1995. During the years of 1989-1995, he was the Senate Majority Leader. Before his days on the Hill, Mitchell was the US Attorney for Maine and a US District Court Judge. He graduated from Bowdoin College and received his law degree from Georgetown Law School. Currently, Senator Mitchell is a Partner and Chairman of the Global Board of the law firm of DLA Piper.

David Shambaugh has been Professor of Political Science & International Affairs in the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University since 1996. He directed the Elliott School’s Sigur Center for Asian Studies from 1996-98, and since that time has been the founding Director of the China Policy Program. He has also been a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at The Brookings Institution since 1998. Before joining the faculty at George Washington, he previously taught at the University of London’s School of Oriental & African Studies, served as Editor of The China Quarterly (1991-1996), and directed the Asia Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1986-87). He has been a visiting scholar at numerous institutions in China, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, and the United States. He received his B.A. in East Asian Studies from the Elliott School at the George Washington University, an M.A. in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins SAIS, and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan. Professor Shambaugh has published widely—having authored or edited 20 books, approximately 200 articles and book chapters, and many opinion-editorials. He is a frequent commentator on Chinese and Asian affairs in the international media, sits on the editorial boards of a number of scholarly journals, and has served as a consultant to various governments, research institutes, and private corporations. He is a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies, World Economic Forum, Pacific Council on International Policy, Council on Foreign Relations, Asia Society, and other public policy and scholarly organizations.

James Swan has been Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs since December 2006. In this capacity, he is responsible for the Bureau’s offices for Central Africa, East Africa and Regional Security Affairs. Immediately prior to this assignment, Mr. Swan was the Director of Analysis for Africa in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (2005-2006). A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Mr. Swan has devoted most of his professional life to countries facing complex political transitions, notably in Africa. His overseas assignments have included service as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassies in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (2001-2004) and in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo (1998-2001). Earlier in his career he was the Somalia Watcher in Nairobi, Kenya (1994-1996) and Chief of the Political Section in Yaounde, Cameroon (1992-1994). He has also served in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and Managua, Nicaragua. In Washington, he was the Zaire (later Democratic Republic of the Congo) Desk Officer (1996-1998). Mr. Swan holds a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, a Master of Arts in International Relations from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a Master’s degree in Security Studies from the National War College, where he was a 2005 Distinguished Graduate.

Yongchen Wang graduated from the Department of Library and Information Science at Peking University in 1983. Two years later, she started her career as a journalist with the Beijing-based China National Radio. In 1996 Wang, along with Ms. Jin Jiaman, an environmental engineer, established the environmental NGO Green Earth Volunteers . For one of her feature articles, Wang was awarded the ABU Prize by the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union in 1993. In 1995, for a program titled Another Hope Project, Wang was awarded first prize for Best National Environmental Reporting. A year later, for an article titled China’s Purple Mountain Observatory, Wang received the first prize for Best National News Reporting. Again in 1999 and 2001, Wang was awarded the ABU Prize for the feature articles titled, “Glacier at Yangtze River’s Source Area on Its Way to Disappearing” and, “Centenarian and Her Ferry” respectively. In 1999, Wang won the Earth Award top prize for environmental protection in China. She donated the prize money to the Chinese Environmental Foundation and set up the Green Earth Education Fund. In 2000, she was chosen as one of forty environmental envoys by the State Environmental Protection Administration. With the establishment of Green Earth Volunteers, Wang has been bringing ordinary Chinese into environmental activities like bird-watching and tree-planting. Along with the many volunteers under her organization, she has planted trees and grass in deserts, along banks of the Yellow River, and at the foot of the Great Wall. Among the other activities in which Wang has been actively engaged are protecting the endangered white dolphin that resides in the Yangtze River, giving free environmental lectures, and holding an Environmental Reporters’ Salon. To date, more than 5 0,000 people have taken part in various environmental activities organized by Wang’s Green Earth Volunteers. In June, 2004 Ms. received the 2004 Conde Nast Traveler Environmental Award. The award recognizes individuals who have done something extraordinary to protect the environment. Ms. Wang was nominated by the International Rivers Network for the Green Earth Volunteers’ work to publicize the environmental impact of the proposed Nu River Dam projects. Ms. Wang has decided to use the prize money to continue Green Earth Volunteers’ efforts to protect China’s rivers. Wang’s books include Inviting One Bird into Your Heart, Woman’s Soliloquy, Riddle of Juvenile College Students, and Embracing the Nature and Green Shots: The Past and Present of China’s Ecology.

Robert B. Zoellick is a Vice Chairman, International, of Goldman Sachs and chairman of the board of the Goldman Sachs International Advisors. He joined the firm in 2006 as a Managing Director. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Zoellick had been the Deputy Secretary of State of the United States since February 2005. From 2001 to 2005, he served as the 13th US Trade Representative. During President George H.W. Bush's administration, Zoellick served with Secretary of State James A. Baker, III as Under Secretary of State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs, as well as Counselor to the department. He also served as Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury during President Reagan's second term. From 1993 to 1997, Zoellick was an Executive Vice President at Fannie Mae, where he supervised the affordable housing business. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, the Department of State's highest honor, the Alexander Hamilton Award of the Department of the Treasury, and the Medal for Distinguished Public Service of the Department of Defense. The German government awarded him the Knight Commanders Cross for his role in developing the United States strategy toward German unification. In 2002, Zoellick was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from St. Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Indiana. He earned a JD, magna cumlaude, from the Harvard Law School and a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in 1981. Zoellick graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Swarthmore College in 1975.