LIU Zongyi, Senior Fellow. He is now the Director of the Center for South Asia Studies, and the Director of the Research Office of Major Power Relations of the Institute for International Strategic and Security Studies, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS), and Director of the Centre for China Studies (Bangladesh). His research interests mainly focus on India's economy and foreign policy, China's foreign policy, BRICS, and G-20. In recent years, Dr. Liu published papers in Chinese and foreign-language journals on these subjects, and published more than 300 commentaries in Chinese and English for newspapers and magazines. Dr. Liu got a B.A. in Economics from the Shandong University of Finance and Economics and a diploma for Chinese and American Studies from The Johns Hopkins University Nanjing Center. He obtained Master and PhD degrees in International Relations from China Foreign Affairs University. He worked at German Development Institute (D.I.E), OECD, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington D.C., Indian National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), and Institute of Strategic Studies of Islamabad (ISSI) as a visiting fellow.