Prof. Dr. Qiang (Braven) Zhang

Dr. Qiang (Braven) Zhang is a Professor on public management at School of Social Development and Public Policy, Beijing Normal University. He is also the Founding Director of the Innovation Center for Risk Governance and the UNDP-China Risk & Resilience Innovation Project Lab (R+ Lab). Dr. Zhang serves as an advisor for the development of a WHO Learning Strategy, the Founder and Vice President of China Chapter of TIEMS (The International Emergency Management Society); the Board Member of China Administration Society; the Deputy-Director of China Nonprofit Committee for Disaster Risk Management at China Charity Alliance；the Board Member of China Volunteer Service Federation (CVSF). He initializes the China NGO Consortium for COVID-19 (CNC-COVID19) as a chief expert after the outbreak of pandemic.

Dr. Zhang has more than 20 years’ experience on public management, disaster risk reduction and volunteering in China. His research focuses on public management and intergovernmental policy implementation, including risk governance, crisis management, volunteering, NGO development and social entrepreneurship, humanitarian and sustainable development. He has conducted research or consulted for UNDP, UNOCHA, UNESCO, UNV and public agencies in China, as well as lecturing widely on these subjects.

He received his Ph.D. in Management from SPPM at Tsinghua University (2004), MBA from SEM at Tsinghua University (2000), a Bachelor of Hydropower Engineering at Hohai University (1995) and was a Harvard-Yenching Visiting Scholar at Harvard (2011-2012).

Email: qz@bnu.edu.cn