Mr. Lu has been Secretary General of China Development Research Foundation since 1998. Under his leadership, CDRF has carried out various events and activities, such as China Development Forum. He was the organiser and coordinator of China Human Development Report 2005, which won widespread acclaim and received UNDP’s 2007 Human Development Award for Excellence in Policy Analysis and Influence. Mr. Lu has extensive experience of rural reform in China. He was Director of Experimental Area Office for Rural Reform, Research Centre for Rural Development of the State Council in the late 1980s. After studying in the US, he worked as Research Associate at Harvard Institute for International Development and Department of Government, Harvard University. From 1994 to 1995 he was senior research fellow in China Business Centre, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He returned to Beijing in 1995 as Senior Research Fellow of Development Research Centre of the State Council. He obtained a master’s degree of Public Administration in 1991 from John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. In 1982 he received his BA in Economics from Beijing College of Economics, Beijing, China. He was the only Chinese National in the World Commission on Social Dimension of Globalization from 2002 to 2004. He is now executive director of China Public Finance Society.