Dr. Geoffrey Chun-fung Chen is an Associate Professor in the Department of China Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. He co-leads the Urban & Culture Research Group at the University’s Research Centre for Culture, Communication, and Society (CCCS) with Linjia Zhang. His research focuses on the interplay between environmental protection and economic development, reforms in the public sector, and the politics of climate change and sustainable energy.

Dr. Chen is the author of Governing Sustainable Energies in China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and co-author of Nuclear Power in Stagnation (Routledge, 2021), written with David Toke, Antony Froggatt, and Richard Connolly. His work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, such as New Political Economy, Third World Quarterly, Europe-Asia Studies, The Pacific Review, Journal of International Relations and Development, and Journal of Chinese Political Science.

He gained his PhD from the University of Bath and has held research fellowships at the University of Duisburg-Essen and the German Institute of Global and Area Studies. At XJTLU, Dr. Chen teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses on Chinese political economy.

Environmental governance

Public sector reform

Political economy

Climate policy

Associate Professor, Department of China Studies, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou - 2018 to present

Co-leader, Urban & Culture Research Group, University Research Centre for Culture, Communication, and Society (CCCS), Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou - 2024 to present

Head of Department, Department of China Studies, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou - 2020 to 2023

Assistant Professor, Department of China Studies, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou - 2016 to 2018

Research Fellow, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg - 2015 to 2016

Research Fellow, German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg - 2014 to 2015

Module leader: CCS207 'China: Entrepreneurship and Development' (Semester 1, UG)

Module leader: CCS309 'China: International Trade' (Semester 1, UG)

Module leader: CCS408 'China's Regional Development' (Semester 2, PG)

Module lecturer & dissertation supervisor: CCS305 'China Studies: Final Year Project' (Semester 1 & 2, UG)

Module lecturer: CCS901 'Understanding China' (Semester 2, UG & PG)