Wang Lei is the Director-General of the Bureau of International Cooperation of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences(CASS).He obtained his M.A.degree in Public Policy and Administration at the Netherlands Institute of Social Studies,and Ph.D.degree in Economics at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.He is a Board Member of the Chinese Association of Friendship with Foreign Countries and a Board Member of the Chinese Association of European Studies as well as the Executive Director of the Silk Road Academy,CASS.He conducted research on European tax coordination in the context of European economic integration and the tax-related rules of WTO in the Faculty of Law under the Tilburg University of the Netherlands and in the European Tax College under the Leuven University of Belgium.The focus of his research is on China's external economic relations covering issues of investment,trade and taxation.