FU Jun is Professor of Political Economy and Public Policy at Peking University. Transdisciplinary in approach for a consilience of knowledge between arts and sciences, he is an internationally acclaimed scholar, and has held joint appointments at the School of Government, the Nannan School (for South-South Cooperation and Development), the School of Art, and the Yenching Academy at Peking University.* Deploying sophisticated mathematical tools such as Riemann sphere, symplectic topology and renormalization group, he is the author of the meta-heuristic growth theory, an agent-based, higher dimensional, and unifying theoretical construct that models economic growth with human cognition and intentionality in field-dependent and complex ecosystems -- nonlinear, nonconvex, and nonergodic -- ultimately constrained by the physical laws of thermodynamics.** All reflecting his unique genre of theory-oriented empirical research, that is, aligning historical reason asymptotically with mathematical reason in group-theoretic and Bayesian approach, thus entailing strategic space for contextualized human learning and adaptation in search of local vs global optima for operations re-search problems, his publications also include: Institutions and Investments (Studies in International Economics, University of Michigan Press);*** Climate Mitigation and Adaptation in China - Policy, Technology and Markets (Springer Nature);**** and China's Pathways to Prosperity - Abductive Reflections on Reforms and Opening-Up (Palgrave Macmillan). As a thought leader on a global stage he has been twice featured in Outlook on the World Agenda - a flagship publication of the World Economic Forum. He has served, among others, as member of listing committee of Shenzhen Stock Exchange, member of visiting committee of Harvard University, advisor to the chairman of the executive board of UNESCO, and vice chair, with Nobel Laureate A. Michael Spence as chair, of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on New Growth Models. A torchbearer in 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, he is also a Lincei Fellow, Aspen Fellow, and foreign academician of the Bologna Academy of Sciences (Italy). He holds a PhD from Harvard University.

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"Professor Fu Jun is a unique thought leader...He is an outstanding scientist with a so-called political economy approach. He is also a social philosopher, a mathematician, and an economist."
-- Alberto Quadrio Curzio, President Emeritus, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei

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"Professor Fu Jun presents us with an extraordinarily stimulating work that spans the entire history of political economy and is based on a deep reflection into the very roots of scientific thought...Looking inside the approach of Professor Fu Jun, his is a powerful synthesis of many theories."
-- Patrizio Bianchi, UNESCO Chair Professor of Education, Growth and Equality, and formerly Italian Minister of Education
"With the addition of the new concepts related to ergodicity and curvature the meta-heuristic growth theory has reached a full maturity. [The] work is a real progress toward the reunion of the hard and soft sciences approaches in economics and it is deeply helpful to understand the core issues of the discipline."
-- Pierluigi Contucci, Professor of Mathematical Physics, Academician of the Bologna Academy of Sciences

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"Institutions and Investments...provides one of the most balanced and thoughtful surveys of the magnitude and nature of foreign investment in mainland China. The book will provide a cornerstone to future research into the economic change in the region."
-- Robert H. Bates, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University
"Excellent job. The research is very significant."
-- Douglass C. North, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences

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"A superb book.”
-- Ngaire Woods, Dean of Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University
"As a major and growing economy, China's role in meeting a global climate challenge is simply crucial. Professor Fu Jun and his colleagues have done a masterful job of laying out the parameters, policies and prospects of China's path to sustainability. It should be essential reading, domestically and internationally." --- A. Micheal Spence, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences