Zhang Yunling, male, Han nationality, is a native of Shandong province. He was born in 1945. Zhang is professor and director of the Institute of Asia Pacific Studies of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and is a member of the Foreign Relations Committee of the CPPCC. He also served as a member of the East Asian Vision Group in 2000 and 2001, the China-ASEAN Cooperation Official Expert Group in 2001, and the Task Force of ASEM in 2003 and 2004.
Professor Zhang was a visiting scholar at Harvard and Johns Hopkins University from 1985 to 1986, a visiting professor at the European University Institute from 1991 to 1992, and senior visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997. His major publications include "China-U.S.-Japan Relations in Transition" (1997), "International Environment for China in the Coming 10-15 Years" (2003), "East Asian Cooperation: Searching for an Integrated Approach" (2004), and "Emerging East Asian Regionalism" (2004).