Wang Jisi is Professor in the School of International Studies and President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Peking University. He is Honorary President of the Chinese Association for American Studies, and was a member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of China's Foreign Ministry in 2008—2016. After working as a laborer in the Chinese countryside in 1968—78, Wang Jisi entered Peking University and obtained an MA degree there in 1983. He taught in Peking University's Department of International Politics (1983—91), and then served as Director of the Institute of American Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences until 2005. From 2005 to 2013, Wang Jisi served as Dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University. He was concurrently Director of the Institute of International Strategic Studies of the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China from 2001 to 2009.