Lei Xie
Academic Position Professor
Education
PhD in Environmental Science, Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University (funded by studentship)
MPhil in Government, Government and Public Administration, the Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China (funded by studentship) (funded by scholarship)
BA in Political Science and Economics, School of Government, Peking University, Beijing China
Contact
Email: Lei.Xie@sdu.edu.cn
Office location
Rm 403, Huagang South Building
Address
Shandong University Qingdao Campus, 72 Binhai Road, Qingdao, Shandong, China 266237
Work experience
From April 2020 to now, visiting researcher, China Research Center, Lancaster University
From April 2018 to April 2020, research fellow, School of sociology and social policy, University of Nottingham, UK
Visiting scholar of Institute of Geographic Sciences and resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2017-2018
2010-2016 assistant professor, Department of political science and international relations, University of Exeter, UK
Visiting scholar, Institute of comparative politics and public policy, China Academy of international studies, April June 2014
2009-2010 University of Exeter, Faculty of engineering, mathematics and physical sciences, University of Exeter, UK
2008-2009 visiting scholar, Department of political science and international relations, City University London, UK
2003-2004 researcher, NGO Research Center, School of public administration, Tsinghua University
Part time job
Lei Xie serves as board member of Forest and Society, which is a SSCI indexed rigorous academic journal.
http://www.iog.sdu.edu.cn/info/1022/2562.htm
Profile
Before joining Shandong University, she lectured in Politics at University of Exeter as Assistant Professor and was a visiting scholar at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the China Institute of International Studies, Shanghai.
Research Area
Lei Xie's research focuses on environmental governance and sustainability, with particular interest in water diplomacy and water security policies in Southern countries. Lei leads China Water Governance Program at Institute of Governance, SDU, member of Universities Partnership for Water Cooperation and Diplomacy (UPWCD), which is based at University of Geveva. Lei has been invited to lecture in UNEP organized capacity building course on climate change related water issues to diplomats.
Research funding
2019 Main investigator and Team Leader, University Major Grant for Humanities and Social Sciences on Sustainable Livelihood, Risk Management and Environmental Governance of the Yellow River Basin, Shandong University (app. 42,000 US$)
2013 Grant, Humanities and Social Science strategy, University of Exeter, The Challenge of Rising Powers, China and India in Brahmaputra River Basin Governance ((£9,624)
2013 Grant, The National Geographic Air and Water Conservation Fund, Water Scarcity and Human Security in the Brahmaputra River Basin (project cancelled due to funder mismanagement) (£15,140)
Selected publications
2020 Lei Xie and Daojiong Zha, China in International Institutions for Water Governance, in River Basin Organizations in Water Diplomacy ed. By Anoulak Kittikhoun and Susanne Schmeier, Routledge.
2020 Lei Xie, Water Politics in Asia. Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science. DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199756223-0309
2019 Lei Xie, Dilemmatic Resource Governance: China’s Balancing Act to Share Rivers, China and the World, 1-23.
2019 Lei Xie and Joshua Garland, NGOs in East and Southeast Asia, Routledge Handbook of NGOs and international relations, Routledge.
2019 Wei Shen and Lei Xie, Can China lead in multilateral environmental negotiations? Internal politics, self-depiction, and China’s contribution in climate change regime and Mekong governance？Eurasian Geography and Economics 2017 Lei Xie and Shao Feng Jia China’s International Transboundary Rivers: Politics, Security and Diplomacy of Shared Water Resources London and New York: Routledge
2019 Wei Shen and Lei Xie, Can China lead in multilateral environmental negotiations? Internal politics, self-depiction, and China’s contribution in climate change regime and Mekong governance？Eurasian Geography and Economics
2017 Lei Xie, Yanbing Zhang and Jagannath Panda, “Mismatched diplomacy: China-India water relations over the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna River Basin” Journal of Contemporary China, ISSN: 1067-0564
2016 Lei Xie and ShaoFeng Jia, “Diplomatic water cooperation: the case of Sino-India dispute over Brahmaputra” International Environmental Agreement, Politics, Law and Economics, ISSN: 1567-9764
Conference presentations and invited talks
2019, Oct, Invited speaker, China and India workshop, ‘China’s environmental security and securitization in the changing Sino-Indian relations,’ Heidelber University, 16-18 Oct,
2019 Sep, Evolving Regional Architecture and Transboundary Water Governance in the Mekong Region, Center for Social Development Studies, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, 13-14 Sep.
2019, Sep, Invited speaker, Roundtable, Climate change and researching East Asia, East Asian Studies Conference, University of Edinburgh, 4-6 Sep
2019 Invited speaker, Water insecurity and the sharing of international river basins in Asia, The 5th International Conference on Water Resource and Environment (WRE 2019), Macao, China, July 16th to 19th.
2019 invited speaker, China’s dilemmatic resource governance and its sharing of international rivers, Interdisciplinary Conference on Belt and Road Initiative, Lancaster University, 6-8 June 2019.
2019 June, Exeter, ‘Nation Building and International Water Sharing: Kazakhstan’s Disproportionate Foreign Policy’, Biannual conference of the European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS), Exeter University, 21-23 June.
Personal web page
https://www.routledge.com/authors/i19138-lei-xie
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lei_Xie2
https://james.academia.edu/LeiXie
