Tingwei Zhang, Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Policy, Director, Asia and China Research Program, Great Cities Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago

Tingwei Zhang is the Chair of IACP (International Association for China Planning) and associate professor of Urban Planning in the Urban Planning and Public Policy Program in University of Illinois at Chicago. His research interest is in globalization and its impacts on cities, and urban development issues in Chinese cities. He has published over 80 articles and book chapters, and 3 books in the US, China, UK and France. In China, he severs as a member of the National Planning Expert Committee of the Ministry of Construction, and as planning consultant to several cities including Shanghai, Wuhan, and Shenzhen. He was Deputy Director of Department of City Planning in Tongji University, Shanghai and Deputy Director of China National Training Center for Planning Directors before came to the US in the 1980s.