Government

Dr. Ikuo is the current governor of Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. To read a recent article about Dr. Ikuo, please click here.

Guoqin Wang is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Zhejiang Institute of Administration and a Researcher at the Institute for China Stability, Southwest University of Political Science & Law. He received his doctoral degree in Political Science from Renmin University of China in 2008. His main research interests focus on social conflict and collective action in contemporary China. His current research is Political Socialization and Legitimizing Collective Violence in Collective Actions.

Dr. Qiang Zhang is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Development & Public Policy, Beijing Normal University. He received his Ph.D in Management from Tsinghua University. His research interests involve crisis management, policy process in China, volunteering, social innovation and social management. Dr. Zhang has spent over ten years in government. He most recently served as an independent consultant for UNDP, UNESCO and UNV. His recent publications include A Study on NGOs’ Participation in the Post-disaster Reconstruction for the Wenchuan Earthquake (Zhang Qiang, Yu Xiaomin, Peking University Press, 2009) and An Outlook on the Chinese Model of Emergency Management Based upon the Review of Wenchuan Earthquake Response: an Interactive Perspective of Strong State and Strong Society (Zhang qiang, Lu Qibin, Zhang Xiulan, Chinese Public Administration, 2011.5).  

Wilson Wong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Government and Public Administration, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.  He has his undergraduate degree, with major in government and public administration and minor in sociology, from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.  He received a Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree and a Ph.D. degree in Public Administration from Syracuse University, New York, USA.  In 2002-03, Professor Wong served as a visiting fellow in the Center for Northeast Asian Policies, the Brookings Institution, in the Washington, D.C., USA.  His major research interests are public administration and management, public budgeting and finance, public policy analysis, and Hong Kong politics.  During his stay in the Harvard-Yenching Institute, he worked on a project to study the post-1997 political changes in Hong Kong after the return of its sovereignty from Britain to China.  The title of his research project was “Hong Kong after 1997: Hong Kong's Post-Handover Governance and Implications for China, Taiwan, and the US.”  It studied the post-handover governance of Hong Kong and used it as a lens to understand China's institutional capacity, and the craft and mechanisms of public governance, particularly in terms of managing a different and diverse system.