Zongchao Peng, convener from East Asia, is Professor and Director of the Public Policy Institute in the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University in Beijing, People’s Republic of China. He has his PhD in political science from Peking University with an award-winning thesis on ‘A Comparative Study of Direct Election Systems for National People’s Representation’. 

Zongchao Peng came to Tsinghua as a postdoctoral fellow in the Development Research Academy for the 21st Century (1999-2001), focusing his study on the newly established public hearings system in China. He was a visiting scholar in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 2006-7. Since 2003 he has been a council member of the Chinese Public Administration Society. 

His research covers crisis management, public administration, public policy, comparative politics, political development, government reforms, and elections systems. He has undertaken over 30 research programmes on these subjects and has published more than 20 books (singly and jointly) and nealry 60 articles. 

When asked why he joined the Building Global Democracy Programme and what his aspirations for the programme were, Zongchao replied:

"I decided to join the BGD program because it aims to promote the communication on global democracy building among different regions, cultures and disciplines... I sincerely desire to learn from other scholars and practitioners about democracy building in global affairs and also to share with others our understandings about it from the perspective of our Chinese traditional philosophical and political thoughts."

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