Wang Jisi is the Founding President of the Institute of the International and Strategic Studies at Peking University, Peking University Boya Chair Professor Emeritus, Professor at the School of International Studies at Peking University, and honorary president of the Chinese Association for American Studies. His scholarly interests cover U.S. Foreign Policy, China's Foreign Relations, and Asian Security. He has published numerous works in these fields. Wang Jisi served as director of the Institute of American Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences from 1991 to 2005, and was dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University until 2013. From 2001 to 2009, he was concurrently Director of the Institute of International Strategic Studies of the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China, and served as a member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of China's Foreign Ministry from 2008 to 2016.