Dr. Tao SUN is the professor of public administration & policy, Dean of Zhou Enlai School of Government, and Director for Public Management Education Center at Nankai University.

In the SHLC project, Dr. SUN serves as the director of the research team at Nankai University (China). His research interests include urban governance, government theory and local governance, and China’s public sector reform. Dr. SUN has published over seventy journal articles in academic Chinese and English journals, reports, books and book chapters.