Prof Niu Haibin received his Ph.D. in international relations at Fudan University in 2006. He is a Senior Research Fellow, Director of Institute for Foreign Policy Studies and Center for Latin America Studies, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies. He is also vice secretary-general of the Chinese Association for Latin American Studies. Previously, he served as Assistant Director of Institute for International Strategic Studies and Deputy Director of both the Center for America Studies and Institute for Foreign Policy Studies at SIIS.

Prof Niu has authored a number of articles and books on China’s grand strategy, great power diplomacy, and China-Latin America relations, including “Debates on China’s International Responsibilities,” "Emerging Global Partnership: Brazil and China," "A Grande Estratégia Chinesa e os BRICS," “BRICS in a changing world: from adaptation, mitigation to shaping?”， “The Global South is an important driving force in the evolution of the international order”，”China’s alternative prudent approach in Afghanistan”，”A Chinese perspective: Will China‐India friction paralyze the BRICS?”，“Emerging global partnership: Brazil and China”, and "Party Diplomacy with Chinese Characteristics." He is currently working on China’s foreign policy and cooperation among emerging powers.

He has been a visiting scholar at Pacific University in Lima (November-December 2017), GIGA (June-August 2016), CSIS (April-June 2014), BRICS Policy Center in Rio de Janeiro (October-November 2012), New York Office of FES (October-November 2011), Stellenbosch University and South African Institute of International Affairs (July-September 2011), and George Washington University (August-October 2005). He participated in “Managing Global Governance” program in Germany from January to June 2008. He worked at the Foreign Affairs Office of the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government (September 2010-July 2011). He worked at China International Import Expo Bureau in 2018.