Professor in Asian Studies and Chair of the Department of East Asian Studies at Princeton University, co-editor of T’oung Pao. Main research fields include: literature, philology, history, religion, and art in ancient and medieval China. Major publications include: The Stele Inscriptions of Ch’in Shih-huang: Text and Ritual in Early Chinese Representation; Origins of Chinese Political Philosophy: Studies in the Composition and Thought of the Shangshu; various edited volumes and some eighty articles and book chapters, including the opening chapter in the Cambridge History of Chinese Literature .

Vice-Rector for international affairs at Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), Professor of Chinese studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies. Main research fields include: Chinese Buddhism, especially the History and philosophy of the Chinese Huayan Buddhist school. Major publications include: Kínai buddhizmus a középkorban - Cs’eng-kuan élete és filozófiája [Chinese Buddhism in the Middle Ages -- Chengguan's Life and Philosophy] (1998), Buddha megjelenése a világban [Buddha’s Manifestation in the World] (2002), A Religious Leader in the Tang: Chengguan’s Biography (2002), Reflecting Mirrors: Perspectives on Huayan Buddhism(2007).

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at SOAS, University of London, Historical Linguist and Philologist working on Sino-Tibetan languages, he is keenly interested in Tibetan history and politics.

Professor of AHBV University, translator, sinologist, winner of the Youth Achievement Award of 10th Special Book Award of China. Main research fields include: Sino-Turkish relationship research. Major publications include: Zamanın Yenemediği Ülke Çin（《时间打不败的敌人：中国》, 2012）），Kadim Gemi (《古船》, translation, 2017)etc.

Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki. In 2015 he was invited to be Adjunct professor in Australia (USQ). Main research fields include: intercultural education, the sociology of multiculturalism and student and academic mobility. Major publications include: Politics of Interculturality (coedit, 2011), Impostures Interculturelles (2012), Linguistics for Intercultural Education (coedit, 2013), Chinese Educational Migration and Student-Teacher Mobilities (2015).

Working at Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography of Far-Eastern People RAS FEB. University Professor, Ph.D.. Senior Russian executive with United Nations Development Program/WTO development assistance, and strategic planning. Main research fields include: Chinese language, oriental studies, contemporary issues and history, culture of China, Asian countries. He is a contributing writer for international periodicals and has published about 150 articles in scientific journals and 3 monographs.

Chair of Chinese studies and Director of Confucius Institutes for Scotland in the University of Edinburgh, Chair Professor in Asian Studies in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh. Main research fields include: the processes of cultural exchanges between China and other cultures and nations in texts and media, modern literature and drama. Major Publications include: “1907, June 1: Global theatrical spectacle in Tokyo and Shanghai,” “From News to New Knowledge: Early Chinese Newspapers and Global Knowledge Transfer,” “Networks of communication in Early Chinese newspaper”.

Former consul general for Denmark at Shanghai; President of Copenhagen Business Confucius Institute. Main research field include: Sustainable development of Confucius Institute. Major publications include: The Core Elements in the Foreign Policy of the People’s Republic of China; When The Theory of the Three Worlds Became a Theory: Chinese Foreign Policy in the 1970s.

Professor emeritus of Sinology from University of Trier. Main research fields include: Chinese History of Ideas; Literature and Literary Theory, Ethics and Aesthetics of Modern and Pre-Modern China, Intercultural Communication and Dialogue between China and the West. Major publications include: Aesthetics and Literary Theory in China – From Tradition to Modernity (2006), Chinese Ethics in a Global Context: Moral Bases of Contemporary Societies (2002), Chinese Thought in a Global Context: A Dialogue Between Chinese and Western Philosophical Approaches (1999).

Head of Department of Asian Studies, School of Arts and Sciences, National University of Mongolia, Head of The Association of Chinese Teachers of Mongolia, member of The International Society for Chinese Language Teaching. Main research fields include: comparative Linguistics, Chinese Studies, Chinese Language Teaching. Major publications include: Sixty years of Chinese studies in Mongolia, Mongolian Chinese Study, Foreign Languages and Culture Studies, Translation Studies.

Professor of Science and Religion at King’s College London and Renmin University of China. Main research fields include: Science and Religion, the nature of the human, human sociality (including its strengths, how it can be fostered, and what makes our sociality break down), social transformation theory. Major publications include: The Creativity of God. World, Eucharist, Reason (2004), Theology of Transformation: Faith, Freedom and the Christian Act (2013), "Niche construction, social cognition and language: hypothesizing the human as the production of place" (2016).

Senior Lecturer at the European Studies Department, School of International Relations, St. Petersburg University. Main research fields include: history of China, informal relation in China, Chinese middle class, talent management. Major publications include: Asia-Pacific Perspective: Does It Exist? (coedit, 2018), Life and scientific work of outstanding Chinese sociologist Fei Xiaotong (2018) and Informal Relations (guanxi) – Manifestation of corruptive Activity or cultural Specifity of China?(2014).