Mr. Zhou Hanmin

Vice Director of the Leader’s Group with 2010 Shanghai World Expo Office

Zhou Hanmin taught in Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade from 1983 to 2000, and is the former vice president of the Institute, ex-director of its Law College, president of the Research Institute of International Economy & Trade and director of the graduate school, as well as the editor of Dynamics and Research of WTO. From August 2000 to March 2003, he served as the deputy governor of Pudong District, Shanghai, responsible for Social Development Board, Lujiazui Central Financial District, and Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone. In 2002, He was dispatched as a China representative of Bureau of International Expositions to reside in Paris, taking charge of the bidding for 2010 Shanghai World Expo.

Professor Zhou is one of the advisor providing consultation on decision-making for Shanghai Municipal Government; he is also the member of the Advisor Group of the Department of Commerce (the former Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, PRC) on Sino-U.S. trading issues, WTO legal consultant of the Department of Commerce(the former MOFTEC), Vice Director of the Research Board of the World Trade Organization Law, and Vice Executive Director of Shanghai Research Centre of WTO. Moreover, he is among the part-time faculty or visiting faculty of Fudan University, Xiamen University, Tongji university, East China University of Politics and Law, Shanghai University and Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade.

For the last two decades, Prof. Zhou has been mainly dedicated to the teaching and research of International Business Law, International Trade law, GATT and WTO, Sino-American Relationship, and Pudong development and opening-up, and has chaired and participated in the editing of such teaching materials and monographs as Introduction to International Business Law (1993), International Trade Law (1995), General Introduction to GATT (1993), General Introduction to WTO (1995), China's Entry into WTO (2000), and China's Entry into WTO (updated edition), Integration with WTO Rules: New Polices in Chinese Foreign Trade (2003); he also independently wrote the book Pilgrimage of Thoughts: Corpus on the Entry into WTO (2002). So far, he has had more than 200 essays published in the above-mentioned fields.

Professor Zhou won the title of " Shanghai Excellent Young Teacher" in 1991, won the American "Eisenhower Fund" in 1992; in 1993, he was awarded "Chinese Excellent Teacher"; and in 1994, he was on the list of "10 Excellent Young People in Shanghai" and was one of the nominees of "BaoSteel Education Fund", and also earned the nomination of "Teaching Elite in Shanghai University" in the same year. In 1995, he was nominated as " Chinese Excellent Young Jurisprudent"; in 1996, he won the title of " Young Experts with Outstanding Contribution to China "; in 1997, he was elected as the talent among the first two classes by "Bai-Qian-Wan Talents Engineering"; and in 1999, he won the "BaoSteel Education Fund" again as well as the title of "Shanghai Excellent Young Jurisprudent".