Pan Zhenqiang

Major General Pan Zhenqiang (Retired) is currently Deputy Chairman of China Foundation for International Studies. He is also Senior advisor to China Reform Forum (CRF); Director of Research Institute for Strategy and Management of the Central University of Finance and Economics in China; and adviser to the College of Defense Studies, National Defense University, PLA, China among other social and academic responsibilities.

General Pan joined the PLA in 1963, and served in the Department of the General Staff for over two decades, having different responsibilities. After 1986, he was Research fellow, Deputy Director, and Director at the Institute of Strategic Studies of the National Defense University (NDU) until the retirement in August 2001.
General Pan was a graduate from Zhongshan University and the National Defense University, PLA, China respectively. He has extensive contacts abroad. He has been research fellow at a number of US universities, including the U.S. National Defense University (1987), Stanford University (1988-1989), and Harvard University (1999 and 2000 respectively). He is now Member of the Executive Committee of the Council of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.