Wei SHEN
Associate fellow
Wei Shen is a professor of international affairs at the Ecole Supérieure de Sciences Commerciales d'Angers (ESSCA). He was born and raised in Shanghai, China before leaving for studies in Europe.
He holds a PhD in Geography from Loughborough University in the UK, an LLM and a European Master in Law and Economics from Stockholms Universitet, a Master in Urban Management from Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, and a BBA from HES Rotterdam Business School.
Wei Shen was awarded the Sir Robert Martin University Medal by Loughborough University and is currently Vice-President of the Asia-Europe Foundation University Alumni Network (ASEFUAN), a Fellow of the Salzburg Seminar, Stiftung Mercator and Volkswagen Foundation's Global Young Faculty.
This text was written for the seminar 'China: a new player in the multilateral system?' held 18 April 2008 at Ifri Paris. The latest World Bank report has put China the second largest economies after the US according to the purchasing power. It is now hard to imagine a world without the...
