Professor and Director of the Institute of Comparative Politics and Public Policy, Shanghai Institute for International Studies
Dr. Yu Hongyuan is an associate professor and deputy director of the Department of International Organizations and Law at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies. He is also an honorary fellow of the Center for International Energy Strategy Studies,Renmin University of China, a visiting fellow for the Sustainable Development Research Center of the China Academy for Social Science, and an honorary fellow of the Centre for Asian Pacific Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He got his Ph.D from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Mphil from Renmin University of China. From 1998 to 2000, he worked with the administrative centre for China’s Agenda 21 at the Ministry of Science and Technology. He is the author of numerous publications, including most recently, Global Warming and China’s Environmental Diplomacy in Nova Science Publishers (2008)