2007-2008 Visiting Scholar Professor Lan Xue
Dr. Lan Xue is professor and Executive Associate Dean of School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University in Beijing. His teaching and research interests include public policy analysis and management, science and technology policy, and crisis management.
Dr. Xue holds a Ph.D in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University and taught at the George Washington University in the U.S. before returning to China in 1996. He has served as a policy advisor for many Chinese government agencies and has consulted for the World Bank, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation council, the International Development Research Center, other international organizations.
He is a recipient of 2001 National Distinguished Young Scientist Award. He currently serves as a Vice President of China Association of Public Administration and as Vice Chairman of the Chinese National Steering Committee for MPA Education among others. He is currently on leave as a member of the Visiting Committee to the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
While at the Ash Institute, Dr. Xue will continue his research on the current incremental reforms in the public policy process in China with emphasis on the roles that social institutions have played in these processes, and the impacts and limits of these reforms on the political development in China in terms of building infrastructure for democracy.