Xiaobo Lü

Xiaobo Lü is Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, which he directed from 2001 to 2007; he also directed Columbia Global Centers - East Asia (2008-2010). His research focuses on comparative political corruption and governance and contemporary Chinese politics. As an Alliance short-term visiting professor at Paris 1 in April 2014, he taught a course on Chinese politics and society and worked with geographer Thierry Sanjuan.