Dr Geoffrey Chun-fung Chen is an Associate Professor in the Department of China Studies at the Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. His research interests broadly cover environmental politics and comparative political economy. He is the author of Governing Sustainable Energies in China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and co-author with David Toke, Antony Froggatt, and Richard Connolly of Nuclear Power in Stagnation (Routledge, 2021). His published articles can be found in peer-reviewed journals, including New Political Economy, The Pacific Review, Third World Quarterly, Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of Chinese Political Science, and Journal of International Relations and Development. He gained his PhD from the University of Bath and has held research fellow positions at the University of Duisburg-Essen and the German Institute of Global and Area Studies. At XJTLU he has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on Chinese political economy.

China studies

Political economy

Public sector reform

Environmental governance

Associate Professor, Department of China Studies, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou - 2018 to present

Head of Department, Department of China Studies, Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou - 2020 to 2023

Assistant Professor, Department of China Studies, Xian 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