Jia Qingguo is professor and former dean of the School of International Studies of Peking University. He received his doctorate from Cornell University in 1988. He has taught at the University of Vermont, Cornell University, the University of California, San Diego, the University of Sydney in Australia, as well as Peking University. He was a Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution between 1985 and 1986, a Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna in 1997, and a CNAPS fellow at the Brookings Institution between 2001 and 2002. He is a member of the Standing Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. He is also Director of the Institute for China-U.S. People-to-People Exchange of the Ministry of Education at Peking University, Vice President of the Chinese American Studies Association, Vice President of China International Relations Studies Association, and Vice President of the Chinese Japanese Studies Association. He serves on the editorial board of more than a dozen established domestic and international academic journals. He has published extensively on U.S.-China relations, relations between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, Chinese foreign policy, and Chinese politics.