Liu Zuokui,Ph.D.in History(2005),the Senior Research Fellow of CASS and the Director of the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies,Institute of European Studies,CASS,and the Acting Director of the China-CEEC Think Tanks Exchange and Cooperation Network Office.

Liu currently serves as the senior researcher of the Development Research Center of State Council of China,research fellow of China Foundation of International Affairs,research fellow of the Institute of Regional and Global Development Beijing Foreign Studies University and the senior researcher of Regional Security Center of CASS.He once was the visiting scholar of Mannheim University of Germany(2007),Aoyama Gakuin University of Japan(2009),Polish Institute of International Affairs(2015)and Latvian Institute of International Affairs(2016).

Liu's major research interest included:Central and Eastern European Studies,Balkan Studies,European Union Integration Studies,China-EU Relations,Quantitative Research such as the Mutual Perception between China and EU and Central and Eastern European Countries,the Turkish Issues and China-Turkish Relations and etc.