Professor at Faculty of Education and Director of International Education Committee, Waseda University. President of Asian Education Association, Council Member of Education History societies, Education Committee Member in Tokyo, and Council Member of China Soong Ching Ling Foundation. Researches social, family, lifelong education and educational policies.

Professor of Economics, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Chair of Economics of Disasters

Founding Editor-in-Chief of Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, a journal published by Springer Nature

Main research directions: economic aspects of natural hazards and disasters

Social scientist specializing in interdisciplinary research. Affiliated Fellow at Leiden University and Co-Director of FORHEAD. Former Director at Social Science Research Council (2002-2016). Researches migration, environment and health. Published internationally and currently co-authoring a book on health and wellbeing in China with Sarah Cook.

professor at the Faculty of Law of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, currently serves as the President of the International Association of Penal Law, an expert in criminal law training for the Dutch Bar Association, a judicial staff training expert for the Dutch Judicial Studies Institute, a selected scholar of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a council member of the European Society of International Law.

Professor Vervaele has led over 30 research projects commissioned by the Netherlands, the European Union, and the United Nations.

Professor of School of Politics and International Relations, East China Normal University

Executive Director of the International Center for Advanced Political Studies

Associate Editor of US-based Journal of Chinese Political Science (SSCI)

Co-Editor of ECNU Review

Main research directions: history of Chinese politics and political development

Professor of the Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, Japan

Chair of the United Nations Science Technology Advisory Group (STAG) for disaster risk reduction

Senior Fellow of Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Japan

Chairperson of SEEDS Asia and CWS Japan, two Japanese NGOs.

Main research directions: disaster governance, community-based disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, urban risk management, and disaster and environmental education.

Professor, Jingshi Academy, Beijing Normal University

Emeritus Professor and Fellow, Green Templeton College, Oxford University

Fellow of the British Academy of Social Science

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

One of the founders of modern European poverty and social security theory

Awarded a lifetime achievement award (MBE) by HM Queen Elizabeth II for his contribution to social policy research

Main research directions: poverty, international development, policy analysis

Professor and Head of Economics School at University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Former UN senior officer (UNRISD Director, UNICEF Research Director). Researches China’s socioeconomic development, gender, labor markets, social policy, and digital transformation in low-income economies.

Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

Foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Member of the World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries

Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Member of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg

Executive director of the International Council for Science（ICSU)

Fellow of the International Science Council

Main research directions: climate change, its causes and impacts, climate dynamics

Research Areas: Innovative Design in Traditional Culture, Fashion Design Education

Senior Manager of School Enterprise Cooperation Development at School of Future Design, Beijing Normal University
Executive Director of the Traditional Craft Design Innovation Center
Secretary-General of the Traditional Handicraft Redesign Laboratory of China National Arts & Crafts Society

Chen Junqian graduated with a bachelor's degree from Tongji University and master's degrees from DOMUS Academy in Italy and Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
She has gained rich experience in fashion accessories and luxury design from DOMUS Academy and Richemont Group in Italy. She has served multiple World's top brands such as Dior Homme and Montblanc, and continue to develop original video courses "15 Lessons on Luxury Design and Market Strategy".
As the co-founder of iiiMARK Laboratory, the self-developed Intelligent Jewelry Customization Service won the silver award of Industrial & Products Design of Shenzhen Global Design Award 2019.

Dr. Ruichang Ding is an associate professor at Institute of International and Comparative Education, Beijing Normal University. His research mainly focuses on the education policy of international organizations, global education governance, and international and comparative education. He has published monograph The OECD and Global Educational Governance, and Education System and Policies in Singapore, and more than 50 articles in academic journals.

Dean and PhD Supervisor at the School of International Chinese Language Education, Beijing Normal University. She has been engaged in teaching Chinese to international students for many years, and has conducted Chinese language teacher training programs in France, the USA, Japan and other countries. She focuses on the research of Chinese language cognition and second language teaching, and has presided over a number of projects funded by the National Social Science Fund, the Ministry of Education, and Center for Language Education and Cooperation. She has published several academic books and dozens of academic papers.

Jingjing Gao is a lecturer at the Department of Economics, Business School, Beijing Normal University. She received her Ph.D. in Economics in 2021. Her research interests include macroeconomics and development economics. She currently teaches courses such as Intermediate Macroeconomics (for undergraduates) and Comparative Study of Economic Systems (for graduate students). She has participated in multiple national-level research projects. In recent years, she has published academic papers in domestic and international journals, including Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Journal of Integrative Agriculture, Children and Youth Services Review, and Labor Economics Research.

Secretary-general of the Academic Committee Professor

Dean, School of Future Design, Beijing Normal University

Director, Future Design Center, Beijing Normal University

Member of Peer-Review Panel Experts of the National Social Science Fund of China

Member of Fine Arts Council, Chinese Museums Association Council Member, Central Academy of Fine Arts

Honorary Director, Today Art Museum

Gao Peng obtained his Bachelor, Master and PhD degrees from Central Academy of Fine Arts and University of the Arts London, and completed postdoctor fellowship in Peking University. He was elected as the president of Outstanding Youths of the World Association with honorary tile of “Outstanding Youth of the World- Artistic Ambassador” in Davos 2015.

Secretary-general of the Academic Committee Professor

Dean, School of Future Design, Beijing Normal University

Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute of International and Comparative Education of Beijing Normal University. He specialises in comparative and international study on educational policy and school management, especially focus on education in Japan

Executive Director of the International Project Office of the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) Program

Researcher of the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development

Dr. Yiyun Hu is an associate professor at the Institute of International and Comparative Education, Beijing Normal University. Dr. Hu's research interests focus on international education, education policy, and education in Latin America. She has presided and participated in over 10 national, provincial, and ministerial-level projects. She has authored monographs including A Study on the Mechanisms of Higher Education Cooperation between Latin America and the European Union and Research on the Internationalization Policies of Higher Education in Latin America. She has translated The Cultural Foundation of Chinese Education by Mr. Gu Mingyuan from Chinese into Spanish. She has published more than thirty articles in academic journals such as Educational Research, International de Comparative Education, European Journal of Education, and International Journal of Chinese Education.

Dr. Huang Yu holds the position of associate professor at the Institute of International and Comparative Education at Beijing Normal University in China. His research interests encompass areas such as environmental education, education for sustainable development, higher education and sustainable development, and geography education. He is affiliated with The Geographical Society of China, Chinese Society of Comparative Education Research, Beijing Association of Education for Sustainable Development, and Beijing Association of Environmental Education.

JIANG Tianyue earned his Bachelor's degree in History, followed by a Master's and a Ph.D. in World History, from Beijing Normal University (BNU). He is currently an Associate Professor at the School of History, BNU, and was previously invited as a visiting researcher in the Department of History at the l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, France. His research focuses on French history, Sino-French relations, and the history of European integration. His teaching portfolio includes courses such as Modern World History, Studies on Highlights in This World, Exploring the Roots of Global Hot Issues, and Monographic Studies for Modern French History

Jiang received her Doctoral degree from Peking University in 2008 and is currently a professor at the School of Philosophy at Beijing Normal University. She also serves as the Program Manager for the MA program in Chinese Philosophy. Her academic interests primarily focus on Daoist philosophy and comparative philosophy. Additionally, Jiang holds the position of Vice Secretary-General of the Union of International Studies on Laozi. She has further enriched her academic experience through several visiting scholar appointments, including at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (in 2010 and 2012), Sungkyunkwan University (from 2017 to 2018), and UC Berkeley (from 2019 to 2020).

Dr. Xiaoli Jing is a lecturer and master’s supervisor at the Institute of International and Comparative Education, Beijing Normal University. She obtained her Doctorate of Philosophy from McGill University in Canada. Her research interests include internationalization of education, cross-border education and education in Canada. She has presided over one national-level project and one ministerial-level project in addition to participating in more than ten projects. She has published over ten articles in SSCI journals such as Higher Education, Studies in Higher Education, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management and CSSCI journals including International and Comparative Education in China and serve as reviewers for these journals.

Vice President of Beijing Normal University

Dean of Jingshi Academy, Beijing Normal University

Main research directions: ancient Chinese poetry and prose, Chinese literature and culture in ancient times

Senior lecturer at the School of Law of Beijing Normal University. He is also a researcher at the Research Center on International Cooperation Regarding Persons Sought for Corruption and Asset Recovery in G20 Member States. Dr. LI Di’s academic interests includes international criminal law and anti-corruption law.

Ph.D. from Warwick University in the UK, is currently an Associate Professor at the School of International Chinese Education, Beijing Normal University. She has been engaged in teaching Chinese to international students for many years, and once served as a Chinese language teacher in the UK and the US. Her main research focus is on second language teaching. She has published one English academic book, presided over or participated in various projects, and authored a few academic papers. She was once selected for the Beijing Higher Education Young Talent Program, and has won a few awards at Beijing Normal University.

Dr. Xiaomin Li is a lecturer at the Institute of International and Comparative Education of Beijing Normal University. She holds a PhD in Comparative Education and International Development from the Institute of Education, University College London. Her research focuses on the global governance of education and the impact of international organisations on educational policy and research.

Ph.D., Associate Professor. He has been honored with the Fourth "Top Ten Most Popular Teachers Among Graduate Students Award" at BNU and the inaugural "Peng Nian Outstanding Young Faculty Award". He has spearheaded the development of four elective courses and two SPOC (Small Private Online Course) courses. Currently, he also serves as Deputy Director of the Office of International Exchange and Cooperation at Beijing Normal University.

Vice Dean of the School of Foreign Languages and Literature at Beijing Normal University, professor of Applied Linguistics. Chaired two projects of National Social Science Foundation. Has long been engaged in language testing research and college English teaching. With extensive research in basic education English assessment and language teacher development, he has edited multiple university-level English textbook series and published over a dozen academic papers in prominent domestic and international journals.

Research areas: Design education, sustainable design

PhD student at the School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Liu Shiyu graduated from the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, and received her master's degree from the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. She also had cross cultural study experiences at the Polytechnic University of Milan and the MIT Media Lab.

She served as a teaching assistant at the School of Future Design, Beijing Normal University, and a guest teacher at the School of Design, Central Academy of Fine Arts. She has published the book Sustainable Food Design Methods and Cases (2024).

Lecturer of School of Environment, Beijing Normal University

Main research directions: degradation process of household waste

head of English Department of the School of Foreign Languages and Literature of Beijing Normal University, professor of linguistics, doctoral supervisor. He graduated from Beijing Normal University with a Ph.D. degree, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Arizona, U.S.A. He had short-term study visits at the University of Central Lancashire in the U.K. and Curtin University in Australia. His main research fields are sociolinguistics, language policy and planning, and academic English. He chaired 3 national projects and 2 social science projects of the Ministry of Education.

Associate Professor of School of Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing Normal University

Main research directions: language contact and cross-cultural studies

Vice Dean and Professor of Advanced Interdisciplinary Institute of Environment and Ecology, Beijing Normal University

Main research directions: simulation and control of non-point source pollution in watershed, environmental effects of climate change, integrated and sustainable development of land and sea

Areas of Research: New Media Art Theory, Cognitive Experience
Associate Professor of School of Future Design and Future Design Center, Beijing Normal University

Former Executive Director of New Media Laboratory of Today Art Museum

Project leader of Smart City Research Center of Peking University

Curator of Guangdong Art Museum

Studied and Received BFA and MA degrees at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Université Vincennes à Saint-Denis and École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris La Villette（France）; studying for PhD (in station) at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in France.

Professor and Deputy Director of the Institute of International and Comparative Education of Beijing Normal University; Director of International Education Research Center at Beijing Normal University MOE International and Regional Studies Key Centers; MOE Yangtze River Youth Scholar; Member of the Financial Committee of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies; Board Member of Comparative Education Society for Asia and Secretary General of Chinese Comparative Education Society; Once served as adjunct associate professor, Teachers College, Columbia University; as well as short-term consultant to the World Bank Global Education Partnership. Teng has long been engaged in comparative education research. Her main research areas include international organization education policy, 21st century skills, global competence, global education governance, international education and global development. She has maintained close exchanges and cooperation with UNESCO, the World Bank, the United States, Finland and other countries.

Wang Shuai is an associate professor and master's supervisor at the College of Chinese Language and Culture, Nankai University. He graduated from Nankai University with a bachelor's degree in 2006, and obtained master's and doctoral degrees from Peking University in 2009 and 2016 respectively. He has visited the University of Melbourne in Australia for study and also taught at the Confucius Institute at Halla University in South Korea. He teaches courses such as Chinese for international students. His research interests include international Chinese language teaching and online Chinese language teaching. He has published papers such as "Research on the Modal Supplementation Mechanism in Online Interaction" and authored the monograph "Research on Pragmatic Teaching of Chinese". He has presided over several scientific research projects and achieved fruitful results in the field of international Chinese education.

Professor at the School of Law of Beijing Normal University. She is also the Vice President of the China Integrity Legal System Research Association and the Vice President of the International Association of Penal Law as well as the Secretary-General of its Chinese branch. Professor Wang Xiumei has published more than 40 individual monographs, translations, and co-authored works. In December 2017, she was awarded the "Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Anti-Corruption Excellence Award" for her outstanding contributions to anti-corruption education and research.

XIANG Xin is an assistant professor in comparative education at Beijing Normal University (Zhuhai). She currently works on two lines of research, one focused on education inequality and justice in China and the other on (de)coloniality in global knowledge production about Chinese education. She obtained a B.A. in psychology from Harvard College and a PhD in education from Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has published six articles in SSCI and CSSCI journals. Her dissertation, Unequal Learning: Social Transformations and Shifting Paradigms of Learning in Contemporary China, won the CIES Gail P. Kelly Award for Outstanding Dissertation in 2021 and has been contracted to be published by Oxford University Press.

YAN Yu is an Assistant Professor in the School of Government at Beijing Normal University. He earned his Ph.D degree in Political Science from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 2020 and conducted postdoctoral research at Tsinghua University from 2021 to 2023. His research covers digital governance, urban governance, and computational social sciences in China. Recently, he is working on projects investigating whether and to what extent digital technology empowers the public and promotes government responsiveness in Beijing and other Chinese cities. He has published more than ten peer-reviewed articles on International Political Science Review, China: An International Journal and other journals in English and Chinese.

Zinan Yan received BEng in Software Engineering from University of Westminster, and MA and PhD in Sinology from SOAS, University of London.

He served as Teaching Fellow at SOAS from 2011 to 2013, Lecturer at Beijing Normal University from 2014 to 2018, and Visiting Scholar at University of Oxford from 2017 to 2018; he is now Associate Professor in the Department of Traditional Chinese Literature at BNU.

His research areas are: 1) Ming dynasty poetry and poetics, 2) Qing dynasty court literature and political culture, and 3) Structuralism in literary studies.

Dr. Yang Chengyu is a professor of economics at the Business School of Beijing Normal University. He received a PhD degree in economics from University of Southern California in 2005 and a PhD degree in physics from Beijing Normal University in 1996. Dr. Yang also hold the guest professorship with Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society of Germany. His research fields are economic growth and consumption, income and wealth inequality, poverty, and policy analysis

Associate Professor of School of Society, Beijing Normal University

Editor of Magazine “Social Inclusion”

Main research directions: poverty and anti-poverty, child poverty, environmental health, and social gender

Deputy Dean and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of International Chinese Language Education, Beijing Normal University. She has been engaged in teaching Chinese to international students for many years and once worked at the Confucius Institute at San Francisco State University in the United States. Her main research areas include international Chinese education, computational linguistics, and natural language processing. She has published more than 50 papers in Chinese and foreign journals, presided over a number of national and provincial-level projects, and published a few academic books and textbooks.

Professor of China Institute of Education and Social Development, Beijing Normal University

Director of the International Centre for Collaborative Research on Disaster Risk Reduction

Main research directions: risk assessment, climate change adaptation and emergency management

YANG Yaowu, holds a Ph.D in economics from Beijing Normal University, is currently the Director of the Department of Economic System Reform at the Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He also serves as a researcher at the National Institute of Finance and Development (NIFD) and a young member of the China Finance 40 Forum (CF40). His main research fields are macroeconomics and financial markets.

YU Zhen, Associate Professor at the School of Government, Beijing Normal University, holds a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Hull, UK, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Tsinghua University. His research focuses on sustainability transitions, urban and regional development, and emerging technology governance, with expertise in interdisciplinary policy analysis. He has published over 20 papers in World Development, Urban Studies, Economic Geography，Regional Studies, and other top SSCI journals. He currently leads an NSFC-funded youth project and serves as an anonymous peer reviewer for 20+ SSCI journals.

Dr. Tingting Yuan is Associate Professor in Education, PhD supervisor, course convenor of MA Education (online) at the School of Education, University of Nottingham (UoN) in the UK. She is the steering group member of the Association of African Universities European Office, the executive member of UNESCO chair in International Development and Education at the UoN. She has completed her undergraduate and master studies in Educational Leadership and Comparative Education at Beijing Normal University, followed by her PhD completion in Comparative Education at the University of Bristol (UK). She has developed and led multiple courses in international education and international development at the master and undergraduate levels across several UK universities. She has been an ordinary member and grant manager at the executive committee of the British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE) for six years, and regularly presented at the international conferences such as by the World Congress of Comparative Education Society and several other associations in the field.

BSc (PKU), MSc (PKU), MSc (LSE), DPhil (Oxon.) Lecturer at School of Sociology, Beijing Normal University. Former ‘Shuimu Tsinghua Scholar’ at Tsinghua University (2019-2021). Board member of the Environmental Sociology Committee, Chinese Sociological Association. Research interests include rural poverty, migration, gender and environmental issues in China, focusing on disadvantaged groups and using qualitative/ethnographic methods.

Zhang Liman is an associate professor and doctoral supervisor at the International Chinese College of Northeast Normal University. She graduated from the School of Chinese as a Second Language, Peking University, with a Doctor of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics degree. She focuses on the cultural teaching of Chinese as a second language and cross - cultural communication research. She has trained Chinese language teachers in many countries such as South Korea and Malaysia, and has rich experience. She has published monographs and textbooks such as "Research on the Standards of International Chinese Cultural Teaching". She has achieved remarkable results in promoting the international dissemination of Chinese culture and improving the level of Chinese language teachers, contributing to international Chinese education.

Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences for the Advancement of Science in Developing Countries

Director of the International Ecosystem Management Partnership of the United Nations Environment Program

Chief Scientist of the Innovation Base of the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences

ZHANG Ying is a professor at the School of Chinese as a Second Language, Peking University, serving as a supervisor for both doctoral and master's students. With a Master of Arts degree, she has been engaged in teaching Chinese as a foreign language since 1992. She has taught at institutions such as Cornell University in the United States and Kyoto Women's University in Japan, and has also trained Chinese language teachers in many countries. Her research focuses on teaching Chinese as a second language, covering aspects like culture teaching in TCSOL, cultural comparison, and traditional Chinese culture. She has published numerous papers such as "On the Culture Teaching in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language" and authored monographs like "The Other Shore World", making outstanding contributions to the field of TCSOL and promoting the development of the discipline and international cultural exchanges.

Ph.D. in History, is an associate professor and master's supervisor at the School of International Chinese Language Education, Beijing Normal University. she has taught Chinese language and cultural courses to international students for many years, and her course "An Introduction to China" has been rated as an excellent course at BNU. She has twice taught Chinese at Asia University in Tokyo, Japan. Her research focuses on international Chinese education and ancient Chinese history. She has published more than 20 papers and presided over and participated in a number of research projects.

Research areas: Urban renewal and community reengineering, intelligent environmental design, environmental psychology, design practice course system research

Lecturer, School of Future Design and Future Design Center, Beijing Normal University

Ms. Zhao Qi studied at Qingdao University of Technology and Bauhaus University in Germany.

Personal Scientific Achievements:Papers have been published in academic journals such as University, Education Modernization, Construction and Building Materials Decoration and Scenic Beauty.

Dr. ZHAO Yuchi is the Executive Director of International Research and Training Centre for Rural Education under the auspices of UNESCO, APEC Education Network Coordinator (2023-2024), and consultant of the National Commission of the People’s Republic of China for UNESCO (2023-2026). He worked as a loaned expert in UNESCO Headquarters from April 2019 to October 2021, in the position as the Coordinator of the UNESCO Prize for Girls' and Women's Education and the Coordinator of UNESCO-Hainan Airlines Funds-in-Trust Project. From 2006 to 2011, he served as the Executive Deputy Director of National Project Management Office for China-UK Southwest Basic Project (with a funding of 27 million Pounds). His research interests are education and international development, rural teachers' professional development and girls' and women's education.

Research Areas：Composition, Computer Music, Sound Design, Audiovisual Interactive Design, Performance Practice Study, Multi-media and Cross-disciplinary Research
Associate Researcher, School of Future Design and Future Design Center, Beijing Normal University

Dr. Zhou Tiange studied at Manhattan School of Music, Yale University School of Music and University of California San Diego (UCSD) and exchanged at HMDK Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart.

Research Areas: Brand Management, Marketing Promotion, Project Operations Lecturer at Beijing Normal University School of Future Design and Future Design Center.
Graduated from Heilongjiang University and Communication University of China.

Personal Research Achievements: Published papers include "Reshaping the Relationship between Companies and the Media," "False Maturity Resulting from Virtual Environments," "Promoting Independent College Promotion Work with a Four-Dimensional Space Model," and more.