LIU Peilong, Professor, Institute for Global Health and Development and School of Public Health. He has over 40 years of experience in public health covering a wide range of areas. He studied at the Department of Literature and Human Sciences at the University of Rennes, France and earned a Masters of Public Health at the School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University in the United States. He started his career in Africa in 1969 as assistant to the General Manager of a large Chinese Medical Mission. After returning to his home country in 1972, he worked as programme officer in the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Health, China, and was in charge of the Chinese Medical Assistance Programme in Africa for 10 years, then in the Foreign Loan Office of the Ministry where he worked for 15 years and became the director of the Foreign Loan Office and the chief counterpart to the World Bank in all its health activities in the People's Republic of China including investment projects and health sector studies. From 1998 to 2003, he was the Director-General of the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Health and acted as the focal point of the government to WHO and other multilateral and bilateral organizations in the field of health cooperation. He served as Adviser to the Director-General of WHO from 2003 to 2007. Since 2008, he has been engaged in global health research and teaching at Peking University, he was the first director of global health department, the school of public health. He received his master degree of public health at John Hopkins University.