Shen Dingli, a physicist by training, is a professor of international relations at Fudan University.He is the founder and director of China's first non-government-based Program on Arms Control and Regional Security at Fudan University.

His research areas cover China-U.S. security relationship, nuclear arms control and disarmament, nuclear weapons policy of the U.S. and China, regional nonproliferation issues concerning South Asia, Northeast Asia and Middle East, test ban, missile defense, export control, as well as China’s foreign and defense policies.

As a key independent academic voice in China in arms control and nonproliferation, Dr. Shen is a member of IISS and a number of other international organizations. He also provides consulting service to China’s MFA, MOFCOM etc. In January 2002 he was invited by Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan to advise the SG of the strategy panning for his second term, as the sole Chinese out of 40 persons chosen worldwide.

He received his Ph.D. in physics in 1989 from Fudan University and did his post-doc in armscontrol at Princeton University from 1989-1991.In 1997, he was awarded an Eisenhower Fellowship. From 1997-2000, he served as Fudan University’s Director of Office of International Programs and Deputy Director of Office of Development and Research.