Professor, China National School of Administration
Dr. Chu Songyan is currently a professor of political science at China National School of Administration (CNSA), and her work includes training senior civil servants and delivering consultative reports for both central and local governments in China. As a guest researcher at Center for Civil Society Studies, Peking University, her work includes training senior NPO leaders and doing researches on government-NPO relation. She has been in charge of two youth projects sponsored by the National Social Science Foundation of China. Her research interests focus on government innovation and Chinese administrative reform. During her Asia Programs fellowship, Professor Chu will research public participation in government innovation. Through observing the relationship between NGOs participation and local government innovation both in China and US, she will analyze the future prospect of the local government innovation in China. Professor Chu received her Ph.D. in political science from the School of Government, Peking University in 2001.