Dr. PAN Guang is Professor of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Director of SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) and BR Studies Center in Shanghai, Dean of Center of Jewish Studies Shanghai (CJSS) and Vice President of Chinese Association of Middle East Studies. He is International Council Member of Asia Society in USA, Senior Advisor on Anti-terror Affairs to Shanghai Municipality and Ministry of Public Security of PRC. He obtained 1993 James Friend Annual Memorial Award for Sino-Jewish Studies, Sankt Peterburg-300 Medal for Contribution to China-Russia Relations awarded by President Putin in 2004 and Austria Holocaust Memorial Award in 2006. He was appointed by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan as member of the High-Level Group for the UN Alliance of Civilizations in 2005, and appointed as Ambassador of the AoC in 2008.
Professor Pan has lectured and conducted research all over the world, including at Harvard University, Columbia University, RAND corp., the Brookings Institution, Stanford University, Oxford University, Leiden University, University of Munich, University of Vienna, The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies & Research in UAE and Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He holds a number of prestigious posts in Chinese institutions on International Studies, Asian Studies, Middle East Studies and Jewish Studies, and published books and articles on a variety of topics such as "The Jews in China", "The Jews in Asia: Comparative Perspective", "The Jews in Shanghai", "The Political and Cultural Impact of the Holocaust ", "From Silk Road to ASEM: 2000 Years of Asia-Europe Relations", "A Comprehensive Studies on Shanghai Cooperation Organization", "Contemporary International Crises", "China's Success in the Middle East", "China's Anti-terror Strategy", "Islam and Confucianism: the Development of Chinese Islam", "China's Energy Strategy", "China's Policy on AF/PAK","China's Role in Changing Middle East" and so on.
