Title: Professor
Position: Executive Dean & Director
Organization: Renmin University of China(Beijing), Southwest University of China(Chongqing), Fujian Agriculture & Forestry University(Fuzhou)
He is one of the founding members of the Global University for Sustainability.
Brief profile:
11 year pre-u experience of working, in local communities, as a peasant, truck driver, servant, etc.
21 year experience of being policy researcher in central governments after doctoral graduation
11 year teaching at universities
Dean and Director of the schools
Old volunteer and facilitator of the rural reconstruction movement in China.
Professor Wen Tiejun is Executive Dean of the Institute of Rural Reconstruction of China, Southwest University and Executive Dean of the Institute of Rural Reconstruction of the Straits, Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University, China. He is a leading scholar on macro- economics and agrarian issues, Independent Non-Executive Director of Postal Savings Bank of China. His monography, Ten Crises: The Political Economy of China’s Development (1949-2020) (Palgrave, 2021) can be free downloaded on https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-0455-3
“Grassroot democracy must be based on de-colonized knowledge, with historical culture of the indigenous and practical experience of the local. This should be created by mass participatory movements for self empowerment…”.