Prof. Dr. Xuewu GU
Prof. Dr. Xuewu Gu is the Chair in International Relations and Director of Center for Global Studies of Bonn University since October 2009. He is also a Chair Professor in International Relations, Dean of the Research School of International and Public Affairs, and Chief Scientist of the Research School for Global Change and Sustainability of the Tongji University in Shanghai since 2008.
From 1991 to 1998, Dr Gu served as Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Freiburg. In 1998, he was appointed the Acting Chair of East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Trier. In August 1999, he joined the Center for European Integration Studies of University of Bonn, acting as Senior Research Fellow directing the "Europe-Asia-Programme". In October 2002 Dr Gu was appointed the Chair of East Asian Politics and Director of the Institute of East Asian Politics at the Bochum University where he worked to October 2009. He is Chairman of the Association of Chinese Professors in Germany, member of the German Council on Foreign Relations, and member of the German Society for Political Science.
