Zhu Xufeng is currently Professor and Associate Dean at School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University. Dr. Zhu earned his bachelor’s degree in environment engineering and doctor’s degree in public management from Tsinghua University in 2000 and 2005. Before he moved back to Tsinghua University, he served as Professor at the Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University.
His research interests involve the policy process, think tank and expert involvement, Science & Technology policy, environment and climate policy, and public governance in transitional China. He is the author of The Rise of Think Tanks in China, Expert Involvement in Policy Changes, and China's Think Tanks: Their Influences in the Policy Process, and has published over twenty English articles in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Public Administration, The China Quarterly, Policy Sciences, Public Management Review, Administration & Society, Asian Survey and other international journals and dozens of articles in Chinese journals such asSocial Sciences in China, Sociological Studies, and Management World, which are highly prestigious academic journals in respective fields in China.
He serves as Regional Editor of Asian Journal of Political Sciences and editorial board memberships for other six international journals. He won many national academic awards including the China National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (2016), the Youth Award of Management Science in China (2014), the National Program for Support of Top-notch Young Professionals (2012), and the National Outstanding Youth Fund (2013). He was the winner of “Best Comparative Policy Paper Award for 2012” of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA). He was also selected as Harvard Yenching Scholar by the Harvard Yenching Institute in 2008.
【Courses】Public Policy; Research Methods in Social Science; Technological, Environmental and Social Policy
【Areas of Research Interests/ Research Projects】 Policy Process theory; Think tanks and expert participation; Science & Technology policy; Climate and environmental policy; Transition and public governance