Professor Sheying Chenreceived his Ph.D. & MSW from the University of California at Los Angeles and is currently a tenured professor of Public Administration/Social & Health Policy at Pace University in New York. He is the founding director of the Centers for Social Work Study and Healthcare Administration at top-ranked Tsinghua University in Asia, where he also served as a senior research fellow of Social Governance, Cross-Strait and Sino-American Relations etc. He was Associate Provost for Academic Affairs (2010-2012) at Pace and previously Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at Indiana University (Southeast). Prior to IU, Dr. Chen was Professor and Dean at the University of Guam (UOG), overseeing the Colleges of: Business & Public Administration; Education; Health Sciences, Nursing & Social Work. He held tenure as Professor and Chair at the City University of New York (Staten Island) where he headed a large unit housing psychology, sociology, anthropology, social work, aging, disability studies, women's studies, etc . He was a permanent faculty member of Sun Yat-sen University at Guangzhou from 1986 to 1992, where he served as a coordinator for graduate studies and a forerunner of China's rebuilt social work & policy education and research. A Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts ( 2017 ) and one of the most influential scholars in Chinese social sciences, Professor Chen is the co- EIC for Springer Book Series ofInternational Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, & PracticeandInternational Perspectives on Aging.