Prof. Wu Xinbo

Speaker at the St. Gallen Symposium

Prof. Wu is Professor and Dean, Institute of International Studies, and Director, Center for American Studies, Fudan University. He teaches and researches China’s foreign and security policy, Sino-U.S. relations, and U.S. Asia-Pacific policy. He authored Dollar Diplomacy and Major Powers in China, 1909-1913 (1997), Turbulent Water: US Asia-Pacific Security Strategy in the Post-Cold War Era (2006), Managing Crisis and Sustaining Peace between China and the United States (2008), The New Landscape in Sino-U.S. Relations in the Early 21st Century (2011), and co-authored Asia-Pacific Regional Order in Transformation (2013) and China and the Asia-Pacific Chess Game (2017). His work appeared in International Affairs, The Washington Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Asian Survey as well as Chinese journals in China. He also contributed chapters to volumes from Stanford, Columbia, Oxford, and Georgetown University Press.

Prof. Wu is on the editorial board of The Washington Quarterly, European Journal of International Security, and International Affairs. He was a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Geopolitical Risk (Vice-Chair 2012-13, Chair 2013-14) and on its Global Agenda Council on Geo-economics (2015-16). He is currently on the Advisory Council of Asia Society Policy Institute and a member of The Trilateral Commission.

Prof. Wu entered Fudan University in 1982, received his B.A. in history in 1986 and Ph.D. in international relations in 1992. He then joined the Center for American Studies. In 1994, he spent a year at George Washington University as visiting scholar. In 1997, he was visiting fellow at Stanford’s Asia-Pacific Research Center and the Henry Stimson Center, Washington DC. From Jan–Aug 2000, he was Visiting Fellow at Brookings Institution. From Sep 2006–Jul 2007, he was Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace.