PUBLIC HEALTH GROUP MENTOR
TANG Bei is a China Forum Expert, and Associate Professor, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Shanghai International Studies University. He is a distinguished academic and practitioner in the field of public health, with a specialized focus on China’s health policy, international health relations, and global health governance. As an Associate Professor at the Shanghai International Studies University, Dr. Tang contributes extensively to the academic community’s understanding of public health issues, particularly those affecting China and its global partnerships. With a deep understanding of how public health intersects with geopolitics, Dr. Tang offers invaluable mentorship to students focused on the complexities of global health systems and Sino-global health cooperation.
CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT GROUP MENTOR
Jennifer Turner has been Director of the China Environment Forum for 23 years at the Woodrow Wilson Center, where she creates meetings, exchanges, and publications focusing on energy and environmental challenges facing China, particularly on water, energy, and green civil society issues. Between 2010 and 2020, she led the Wilson Center’s Global Choke Point Initiative. Working with Circle of Blue, she co-produced multimedia reports and films and convened water-energy-food confrontations in China, India, Mexico, South Africa, and the United States. Jennifer serves as Senior Editor for the Wilson Center’s InsightOut publication and the China Environment Forum column on the New Security Beat blog. She received a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Comparative Politics in 1997 from Indiana University, Bloomington. Her dissertation examined local government innovation in implementing water policies in China.
PEACE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION GROUP MENTOR
Senior Colonel ZHOU Bo is a China Forum Expert and a Senior Fellow of CISS, Tsinghua University. He is a senior military strategist and expert in international security and conflict resolution, with a wealth of experience in both Chinese and global security dynamics. Currently serving as a Senior Fellow at the China Institute of International Studies (CISS) and a faculty member at Tsinghua University, Colonel Zhou is a leading voice in China’s military diplomacy and peacekeeping efforts. His expertise in strategic competition and military affairs offers students unparalleled guidance on the complexities of peace and conflict resolution in the context of U.S.-China relations and global security.
EDUCATION GROUP MENTOR
Emily M. Matson is an Assistant Teaching Professor of modern Chinese history at Georgetown University in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and the College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History. Emily is currently an Education Ambassador with the Council on Foreign Relations and a Research Affiliate with the University of Virginia East Asia Center and was a recent China Fellow at the Wilson Center. She has previously designed and taught courses in East Asian history at American University, the College of William and Mary, and Randolph College. Emily’s research interests include Manchuria, museums, historical memory, and World War II, and she is currently working on the manuscript of her first book. Her Ph.D. and M.A. are from the University of Virginia, and her B.A. is from the College of William and Mary.