PAN Guang

Professor of History & Political Science

Dr. PAN Guang is the Director and Professor of Shanghai Center for International Studies and the Academic Director of Institute of European & Asian Studies at Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Director of SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) Studies Center in Shanghai, Dean of Center of Jewish Studies Shanghai (CJSS) and Vice Chairman of Chinese Society of Middle East Studies. He is International Council Member of Asia Society in USA, Senior Advisor of China-Eurasia Forum in USA, Advisory Board Member of Asia Europe Journal (by ASEF) in Singapore, Member of the Board Management Committee of Asian Scholarship Foundation in Bangkok and Senior Advisor on Anti-terror Affairs to Shanghai Municipality and Ministry of Public Security of PRC. He obtained 1993 James Friend Annual Memorial Award for Sino-Jewish Studies, 1996 Special Award for Research on Canadian Jews from China, Sankt Peterburg-300 Medal for Contribution to China-Russia Relations awarded by President Putin in 2004 and Austria Holocaust Memorial Award in 2006. He was nominated by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan as member of the High-Level Group for the UN Alliance of Civilizations in 2005.

He has been doing research and giving lectures widely in North America, East Asia, Russia, Central Asia, Europe, Middle East and Australia. He holds a number of prestigious posts in Chinese institutions on International Studies, Asian Studies, Middle East Studies and Jewish Studies, and published books and articles on a variety of topics such as “The Jews in China”, “The Jews in Shanghai”, “The Jews in Asia: Comparative Perspective”, “The Jewish Civilization”, “2003: US War on Iraq”,  “From Silk Road to ASEM: 2000 Years of Asia-Europe Relations”,  “A Comprehensive Studies on Shanghai Cooperation Organization”,  “SCO and China’s Role in the War on Terrorism”, "Contemporary International Crises”, “China’s Success in the Middle East”, “May The Dragon and Elephant Tango: Rise of China and India”, “China’s Anti-terror Strategy and China’s Role in the War on Terror”, “Islam and Confucianism: the Development of Chinese Islam”, “China and Post-Soviet Central Asia” and so on.