Wei Liang is Gordon Paul Smith Chair of international policy in the School of International Policy and Management at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. She served as the president of the Association of Chinese Political Science (ACPS) during 2014-2016. Her research interests include international political economy of East Asia, international negotiation and global governance. She is the coauthor of China and East Asia’s Post-Crises Community: A Region in Flux? (Lexington, 2012), co-editor of Handbook of Trade War (Edgard Elgar, 2022), Challenges to China’s Eocnomic Statecraft: A Global Perspective (Springer, 2019), China and Global Trade Governance (Routledge, 2013), a number of journal articles and book chapters. A graduate of the Peking University, People’s Republic of China, she received her Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Southern California. Dr. Liang had academic appointment as a visiting professor in the Peking University, visiting research fellow at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore and Meiji University in Japan.