Fan Yongming

Professor, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University Director, Center for BRICS Studies, Fudan University

Prof. Fan Yongming, born in Shanghai in August 1949, is currently Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs and Head of the Department of International Politics and Director of the Center for BRICS Studies, Fudan University. Prof. Fan graduated from the Department of International Politics, Fudan University in 1976 and served afterwards at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies and Shanghai Pudong Development Bank. In 1998, Prof. Fan came back to Fudan, where he has been teaching ever since. He has been a visiting scholar at IDE (the Institute of Developing Economies) and Keio University in Japan. 

Prof. Fan's research focuses on international political economics, public economics, and Japanese studies. His academic works include Trade Friction and Relations between the Great Powers, Theory and Practice in Regional Public Goods, Modern International Political Economics, Theories and Schools of Western International Political Economics, and Public Economics. Among these books, Trade Friction and the Relations between the Great Powers won second prize at the annual Shanghai Philosophy and Social Sciences Award in 2012, with his book Public Economics taking second prize under the Teaching Achievement Award category for 2005.

Prof. Fan has been dedicated himself to the research of BRICS cooperation in recent years. He is now promoting the construction of the Collaborative Innovation Center for BRICS Cooperation and Global Governance on behalf of the Center for BRICS Studies, Fudan University, cooperating with the Institute of Modern International Relations at Tsinghua University, the Center for Russian Studies at East China Normal University, the Institute of South Asian Studies at Sichuan University, and the Institute of African Studies at Zhejiang Normal University.