Professor Shi Zhiqin
Dr. Shi Zhiqin is a professor and Ph.D supervisor at Tsinghua University’s School of Social Sciences, Department of International Relations. He heads several key research institutes within the university including: president of the One Belt-One Road Strategy Institute, vice director of Tsinghua Think-tank as well as vice president of the board of the Research Center for China-EU relations .
Shi gained the Ph.D. from the School of International Studies at Peking University in 1997. Afterwards he transferred to Tsinghua University and served as vice party secretary of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and was secretary of the School of Social Sciences from 2002-2016. In the same period of time, he was simultaneously the director of the Department of International Relations and the Research Center for China-EU relations.
Outside of the university, Shi is currently the executive director of the Chinese Committee of International Communist Movement History, visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Science ‘s Center of Italian Studies and Institute of British Studies, resident scholar at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy and core member of the Central Compilation & Translation Bureau within a high-end think tank.
From 2000-2004, Shi served as a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois, University of Toronto and University of British Columbia. He was also a member of the Chinese delegation observing parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan in 2005.
Shi’s research interests focus primarily on strategies for China’s One Belt-One Road Initiative, international relations, comparative politics, European party politics, social democracy and China-EU relations. As a respected scholar he has contributed numerous articles, commentaries and books within these fields.
Shi Zhiqin is the author of The Transformation of Italian Communist Party and the Italian Politic Changes and Globalization and the Transformation of European Social Democratic Party. In addition, he co-authored Globalization and the Transformation of World Parties, The studies of China-EU Relations, and Mirror: Study on the Practice and Laws of the Communist Party’s Governance.
