Professor Lianjiang Li, Programme Director of GPGC from 2017 to 2019, is now a CASBS Fellow at Stanford University in the 2019-2020 Academic Year. Prof. Vivian Zhan is named as new Programme Director of MSSc in GPGC from 2019 to 2021.

Vivian Zhan is an Associate Professor of the Department of Government and Public Administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her BA in English and International Studies from Foreign Affairs College of China, and her PhD in political science from University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests span comparative political economy, contemporary Chinese politics, and research methodology, with a focus on post-Mao reforms, intergovernmental relations and local governance. She is also interested in informal institutions and their impact on political and economic behaviours.

Please clink the below link for a recent interview Prof. Zhan conducted in Belgrade with Politika, a Serbian newspaper (you may need google translation to read the content).

http://www.politika.rs/scc/clanak/432325/Kina-zeli-bolju-vezu-luke-Pirej-i-Balkana