Note:- Listed in alphabetical order based on surname
David Barboza
David Barboza has been a correspondent for The New York Times based in Shanghai, China, since November 2004. Before that David was a freelance writer and a research assistant for The New York Times before being hired in 1997 as a staff writer. For five years, he was the Midwest business correspondent based in Chicago.
Barboza has won numerous awards for his work as a journalist, including in 2013, the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. He was also part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.
Mr. Barboza won two awards in The Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) 2007 Best in Business Journalism Contest. He was also part of the team that won the 2008 Grantham Prize for environmental reporting for the series "Choking on Growth: China’s Environmental Crisis." In 2002, he was part of a team that was named a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Enron scandal. In 2008, Mr. Barboza won The Times’s internal business award, the Nathaniel Nash Award. He has twice won the Gerald Loeb Award for business reporting.
David graduated from Boston University with a bachelor’s degree in history and attended Yale University Graduate School.
Timothy Hildebrandt
Timothy is Assistant Professor in LSE's Department of Social Policy. His research and teaching focuses on the relationship between non-governmental organisations (NGO) and the state, particularly in non-democracies. His recent book, published by Cambridge University Press, is a ground-breaking comparative study of several NGO sectors across China.
Trained as a political scientist, he researches social organisations primarily through a political economy lens, attentive to the role that both politics and economic resources play in the life of NGOs. He also draws upon management theories and literature in highlighting how NGOs are highly adaptive organisations, interested in ensuring long-term sustainability.
One of his current research projects has him examining how Chinese NGOs have begun to spread their reach outside of the mainland as frequent government partners in development projects. His perspective is both theoretical and practical; his work seeks to engage policy and practitioner audiences, in Beijing and the rest of the world.
Paul Kelly
Paul Kelly is currently Vice President (Pro-Director) for Teaching and Learning at LSE. He joined the School in 1995 after teaching for five years at the University of Wales Swansea. Prior to that he held a visiting research fellowship at the University of Chicago Law School and at the Bentham Project, University College London. He graduated from York University with a First in Philosophy and an MA in Political Theory. His PhD is from the University of London, where he spent two years at LSE and a further year at UCL.
Paul's current research interests include political Ideas in British politics and policy-Making including Multiculturalism; group rights and national identity; equality of outcomes and equality of opportunity and theories of social justice; theories and concepts in modern political theory including especially the development and distinctiveness of British Political Ideas from the seventeenth-century; and political ideologies and political ideas from the Ancient Greeks to the present.
Meng Bingchun
Dr Bingchun Meng is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she also directs the Double Degree Programme in Global Media and Communications (with Fudan). Bingchun has a BA in Chinese Language and Literature and an MA in Comparative Literature from Nanjing University, China, and obtained her PhD in Mass Communication (2006) from the Pennsylvania State University, USA. Before joining LSE, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.
Her major research interests include the political economy of Chinese media and information industries; copyright, communication network and creative activities; new media and social change; and comparative research of media culture. She has published widely on academic journals and is now working on a book about the mediated politics of contemporary China.
Wang Wen
Wang Wen, Executive Dean of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China (RDCY). He also holds office as standing director of World Socialism Research at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, standing director of “One Belt One Road” Think Tanks’ Association of China, Secretary-General of Green Finance Association of China, standing director of Global Times Foundation, columnist at Sina.com and Guancha.cc, as well as Special Analyst at the Xinhua News Agency. Wang had studying and researching experiences at Lanzhou University, Hong Kong Baptist University, the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University, and Peking University. Upon receiving his master’s degree, Wang joined Global Times, and worked as reporter, news editor, history editor, chief Op-eds Editor and Editorial Writer. He was also a member on the editorial board in charge of commentaries. He was the winner of the China News Awards in 2011. Wang has translated, co-edited and independently written 15 books including Theories of World Governance: A Study in the History of Ideas, International Relations in Political Thoughts, A Truth Speaking China, Fantasy of Major Countries: Record and Contemplation Traveling the World and Finance is A Cup of Afternoon Tea, The Euroasian Erea: Blue Book of Silk Road Economic Belt2014-2015,to name a few. Leaving the media sector in early 2013, Wang was instrumental in the establishment of the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China (RDCY), a new-style think tank. Presently, RDCY has been recognized as one of the “150 top think tanks in the world” in the 2014 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report, launched by the University of Pennsylvania. Together with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Development Research Center of the State Council, RDCY is among the seven Chinese think tanks selected.
王文，中国人民大学重阳金融研究院执行院长、中国社会科学院世界社会主义研究中心常务理事、“一带一路”智库合作联盟常务理事、中国金融学会绿色金融专业委员会常务理事兼秘书长、环球时报基金会理事、新浪财经、观察者网专栏作家、新华社特约分析师。曾就读于兰州大学、香港浸会大学、南京大学－约翰斯• 霍普金斯大学、北京大学。研究生毕业后加入《环球时报》，先后任记者、新闻编辑、历史编辑、评论编辑、社评起草人、评论组组长、编委（主管评论），2011 年“中国新闻奖”获得者。他曾翻译、主编、合著、专著的著作包括《世界治理：一种观念史的研究》、《政治思想中的国际关系学》、《真话中国》、《大国的幻象：行走世界的日记与思考》、《金融是杯下午茶》、《欧亚时代：丝绸之路经济带建设蓝皮书2014－2015》等书籍15本。2013 年初离开媒体界，参与创办新型智库人大重阳。目前该智库在由美国宾州大学推出的《全球智库报告2014》中，与中国社会科学院、国务院发展研究中心等七家中国智库一并入围为“全球智库150强”。
Wei Xing
Wei Xing is the deputy editor-in-chief of The Paper, a digital media outlet which focuses on current affairs. He co-founded The Paper in 2014. Prior to this, he served as the foreign editor of Oriental Morning Post, a daily newspaper based in Shanghai. He writes broadly about China foreign affairs. He began his journalism career as a reporter with Youth Daily in 2001.
魏星
魏星是澎湃新闻的副总编辑，2014年他参与创办了这家“专注时政与思想”的数字媒体。在此之前，他是《东方早报》的国际新闻主编，广泛报道中国外交事务。2001年，他在《青年报》进入新闻业。
Wu Jing
Wu Jing is Professor of Communication and Associate Dean at the School of Journalism and Communication at Peking University. She has a BA in English (1997) from Tsinghua University, China, and obtained her Ph.D. in Communication from the Department of Communication Studies, the University of Iowa in 2002. Her research areas are critical media and cultural studies, social theories of communication and media technology, social uses of new media, new media and creative industries, visual culture, etc. She published articles both in Chinese and English on topics concerning various aspects of media, culture and society.
Her recent book is entitled Visual Expressions of Cultural Modernity: Ways of Seeing and Communication. She has guest lectured at Oxford University, Columbia University and the Royal Institute of Technology among others. Her recent research interests focus on social uses and social theories of new media technologies.
Zhang Jiwei
Zhang Jiwei is Managing Editor of Caxin.com, and an editorial board member of Caixin Media. Prior to joining Caixin Media, Mr. Zhang worked at Caijing Magazine as associate editor in charge of the Capital and Financial Market Desk. From 1998 to 1999 he worked for Nanfang Daily, specializing in economic affairs.
Zhang graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Renmin University of China in 1998. He pursued further studies in the School of Law at the University of Nottingham in 2003, and in the University of California – Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism in 2008.
张继伟
财新网执行总编辑、 财新传媒编委
张继伟先生现任财新网执行总编辑、财新传媒编委。加入财新之前，他曾任《财经》杂志副主编。
张先生于1998年毕业于中国人民大学新闻学院，同年进入《南方日报》经济部工作。
他曾于2003年和2008年分别在英国诺丁汉大学法学院、美国加州大学伯克利分校新闻学院进修。