Dr. Wu is Professor and Dean, Institute of International Studies, and　Director at the Center for American Studies, Fudan University. He teaches and researches China's foreign and security policy, Sino-U.S. relations, and U.S. Asia-Pacific policy. Prof. Wu is the author of Dollar Diplomacy and Major Powers in China,1909-1913(Fudan University Press,1997),Turbulent Water: US Asia-Pacific Security Strategy in the post-Cold War Era(Fudan University Press, 2006),Managing Crisis and Sustaining Peace between China and the United States(United States Institute of Peace, 2008),The New Landscape in Sino-U.S. Relations in the early 21st Century(Fudan University Press,2011)and co-authored Asia-Pacific Regional Order in Transformation(Current Affairs Press, 2013),China and the Asia-Pacific Chess Game(Fudan University Press, 2017). His work has also appeared in English language journals such as International Affairs, The Washington Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Asian Survey as well as Chinese language journals published in China. He also contributed chapters to book volumes published by Stanford University Press, Columbia University Press, Oxford University Press, etc.

　Dr. Wu serves on the policy advisory board of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is on the editorial board of The Washington Quarterly, European Journal of International Security,  and on the International Advisory Board of International Affairs. He was a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Geopolitical Risk and served as its Vice-Chair (2012-13) and Chair (2013-14), and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Geo-economics(2015-2016). He is currently a member on the Advisory Council of Asia Society Policy Institute, as well as a member of The Trilateral Commission.

　Dr. Wu entered Fudan University in 1982 as an undergraduate student and received his B.A. in history in 1986.  In 1992, he got his Ph. D. in international relations from Fudan University. In the same year, he joined the Center for American Studies, Fudan University. In 1994, he spent one year at the George Washington University as a visiting scholar. In the fall of 1997, he was a visiting fellow at the Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University and the Henry Stimson Center in Washington DC. From January to August, 2000, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution. From September 2006 to July 2007, he was a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace.