Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen  

President, The Institute for International Affairs, Qianhai. 

Professor Zheng is Editor of The Asian Review of Political Economy (Springer-Nature), Editor of China Policy Series (Routledge) and Co-editor of Contemporary China Studies Series (World Scientific).  

Professor Zheng graduated from Peking University (BA International Relations, 1985; MA in Law, 1988) and Princeton University (MA in Political Science, 1992; PhD, 1995). He was a Lecturer in the Department of Politics and Public Administration of Peking University (1988-1990); Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow of the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore (1997-2005); Professor and Research Director of the China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham (2005-2008); Professor and Director of the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore (2008-2020). He was a Fellow of the US Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Foundation (1995-1997) and a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow (1998-2000). 

Professor Zheng’s main research interests are international relations, China’s foreign policy, Sino-US relations, China’s domestic transformation and its external relations. He has authored and edited some one hundred books, including ten monographs in English. He has published numerous research papers in academic journals.