Bingqiang Ren is an associate professor at the School of Public Administration, Beihang University, China. He has broad academic interests, such as globalization, Chinese public participation, and nationalism. He is currently engaged in public participation in environmental protection movements in China. He would like to study the behaviors of environmental NGOs as well as individuals in environmental protection movements to show the relationship between civil society and the development of democracy in China. He received his Ph.D. from Peking University in 2004.