Professor Dr. YE Jiang, born in 1955, received his MA in History at East China Normal University (Shanghai, China) in 1987 and his PhD in Law at Fudan University (Shanghai, China) in 1998. He is the senior research fellow of the Institute for Global Governance Studies, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS). He is also a professor, PhD supervisor at the School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He was a  visiting fellow at CSIS (Washington, USA), University of Cambridge (UK), Sciences Po（Paris，France）, Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto, Japan) etc. He is concurrently an expert member of the Advisory Committee for Policy Decision of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission of PRC, vice-chairman of the Chinese Association of World Ethno-Nations, vice-chairman of the Shanghai Institute of European Studies. He has so far finished two Programs of National Philosophy and Social Sciences, two Programs of Shanghai Municipal Philosophy and Social Sciences, and a Program entrusted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of PRC. He is the author of five monographs, and has about 100 articles published by academic journals both at home and abroad. His three works won the Shanghai Award of Excellent Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences. And he was also awarded an Award for Major Foreign Policy Research by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of PRC. In 2016 he received a Government special allowance issued by the State Council of the People's Republic of China