Yang Cheng, Professor, Executive Dean of SAGGAS. Vice President and Secretary-General of the Shanghai Society for Area Studies; Director of the Innovation and Talent Recruitment Base of New Eurasian Studies (Ministry of Science and Technology& Ministry of Education); Director of the SCO & Trans-Eurasian Integration Studies Center, a National Ethnic Affairs Commission-approved BRI Country and Regional Studies Base.
Short CV
2017- Professor, SAGGAS
2007-2017 Associate Professor & Professor, East China Normal University
2000-2007 Diplomat served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of PRC and the Chinese Embassy in Moscow
Education
PhD, East China Normal University
MA, Minzu University of China
BA, Peking University
Current Research
Trans-Eurasian integration
Relations among major powers and small-state diplomacy in Eurasia
Eurasian international organizations
China’s peripheral diplomacy
Countries and Regions
Russia
Central Asia
Eastern Europe
