President Yang Jiemian
Jiemian YANG received his B.A. at the Shanghai Teachers’ University, M.A. at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS) and M.A. at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Ph.D. at the Shanghai International Studies University. Currently he is Senior Fellow and President at the SIIS, Member of Shanghai Committee of People's Political Consultative Conference, as well as President of Shanghai Association of International Relations. Concurrently, Dr. Yang is on the boards of the China National Association for International Studies, the Chinese People Institute of Foreign Affairs, the National Association of China-U.S. Friendship, the National Association of American Studies, Shanghai Association of Taiwan Studies and many other organizations.Dr. Yang is also a guest professor/fellow at the PLA National Defense University, Shanghai International Studies University and Tongji Universit. His honors include National Special Awards, Shanghai Outstanding Talent Award and several Shanghai Awards in Social Sciences.

Dr. Yang has published many papers or books on international relations and American foreign policies. His most recent books include:

• Sino-US Relations in Post-Cold War Era: Elaboration and Exploration, The Shanghai People’s Press, Shanghai, 1997;
• Sino-US Relations in Post-Cold War Era: Comparative Studies on Foreign Policies, The Shanghai People’s Press, Shanghai, 2000.
• The Taiwan Issue and the World Configuration of Powers: Changes and Challenges (co-authored), The Shanghai People’s Press, Shanghai, 2002;
• International Terrorism and Contemporary International Relations: Impacts and Influence of the “9·11” Attacks (co-authored), The Guizhou People’s Press, 2002;
• International Cooperation on Anti-Terrorism: Thinking Beyond Geopolitics (co-authored), The Shishi Press, 2003;
• Sino-US Relations in Post-Cold War Era: Crisis Management Comparative Studies, The Shanghai People’s Press, Shanghai, 2004;
• Grand Cooperation: The Changing World and China’s Global Strategy, The Tianjin People’s Press, Tianjin, 2005;Grand Matching-up: China-U.S. Mutual Strategies and Policies,Tianjing People's Publishing House,Tianjin, 2007;
• Grand Integration: Trends of Asian Economic Cooperation,Tianjing People's Publishing House, Tianjin,2007;
• International Systemin Transition and Multilateral Organization Developments, Shishi Publishing House, Beijing,2007;
• Grand System: Toward Multi-Polar & Multi-Actor, Tianjing People's Publishing House,Tianjin,2008.

Vice President Chen Dongxiao
CHEN Dongxiao：Born in 1967, Vice President of SIIS, and Ph.D. in Law received from the Department of International Politics of Fudan University. He was formerly Director of the Department of International Organizations and International Law, Director of the Department of American studies, and Director of the Center of the Department of American Studies successively since he had joined SIIS in 1993. He had been teaching at the Department of International Politics of Fudan University until 1993.

Chen specializes in the studies of U.S. foreign policy, Sino-U.S. relations and UN collective security. He is supervising and working on research projects entrusted by China National Foundation of Social Sciences Studies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Office of Taiwan Affairs and so on. His main published writings in recent years are:
“China: Active in Multilateral Strategy” (China’s Role in International System, Yu Xintian, et al., China Encyclopedia Press House, 2008);

• “Evolution and Connotation of U.S. Perception of International System---Analyzing the Future of Sino-U.S. Interaction on the Reform of the UN Security Mechanism, Contemporary International Relations, 2008, No.1;
• “Complexity and Transformational Structure of China-US Relations”(Suisheng Zhao ed., China-US Relations Transformed: Perspectives and Strategic Interactions, Routledge, 2008);
• “Transformation of International Security System and UN Reform”, International Review, 2007, No.5 and so on.

He is co-author of United Nations: New Agendas and New Challenges, Current Affairs Press, 2005. He also contributed chapters to the books Grand System Toward Multi-Polar & Multi-Actor (Yang Jiemian (ed), Tianjin People’s Publishing House, 2008); Grand Matching-up: China-U.S. Mutual Strategies and Policies, (author: Yang Jiemian, Tianjing People's Publishing House, March 2007), etc. Chen is currently senior expert of Center of Sino-U.S. Relations Studies, China Institute of International Studies and invited senior fellow of China Center for Peace and Development Studies. He was visiting fellow at Japan Institute Of International Affairs between 1996 and 1997.