Dr. Shuaihua CHENG is Programme Officer for Strategic Analysis and China at ICTSD where he is responsible for strategic advice to the Chief Executive and for the organisation’s newly established China Programme. Before joining ICTSD in 2006, Dr. Cheng was a Counsellor for trade and development at the Shanghai Development Research Centre and Board Secretary of Shanghai WTO Affairs Consultation Center. He was also an attorney at the Shanghai-based Jingda Law Office on international trade and investment.
Dr. Cheng is a member of the OECD Advisory Committee of China Investment, Associate Research Fellow of IMD-based Evian Group, Salzburg Seminar Fellow, Senior Fellow of Pudong Academy of Development, Faculty of London-based Sustainability, Guest Lecturer of the China European International Business School, and 21st Century Young Leader of Asian Society.
Dr. Cheng has written widely on issues related to trade, sustainable development and China’s role in the global trading system for both policy and academic audiences. Most recently, he was the co-author (with Johannes Bernabe) of “The Doha Round Negotiations on Rules: An Overview” (Salzburg Seminar 2007), “Trade and Biofuels” (with Dr. Moustapha Kamal Gueye, Evian Group, 2007), and author of “China’s Challenges in Energy, Trade and Environment” (ICTSD 2006). His commentary has been published in leading international newspapers, including “Scapegoat for failed policy” (Financial Times 2005) and “Impacts of U.S. Congress on China’s Accession to the WTO” (The Fudan Press, 2003). Mr. Cheng was educated at the Fudan University and the University of Oxford. He is a citizen of China.