Dr. Li Bin, a physicist and expert on arms control and international security, directs the
Arms Control Program and is a professor of International Security at the Institute of International Studies,
Tsinghua University. Since 1990, Dr. Li has conducted research on strategic arms control, space arms control, nuclear test ban, missile defenses, deep nuclear reductions and Chinese-U.S. nuclear relations. In 1994, Dr. Li received a two-year Post-doctoral Fellowship on Peace and Security in a Changing Word awarded by the Social Science Research Council / Mac Arthur Foundation, which allowed him to spend a year at the Defense and Arms Control Studies Program at MIT, and a year at the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies at Princeton University. Dr. Li served as a technical advisor to the Chinese negotiation team on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty in 1996. He is on the editorial boards of Science and Global Security, Nonproliferation Review and on the boards of China Arms Control and Disarmament Association and China-U.S. People’s Friendship Association.