APA China Program Staff

Jeffrey Soule, FAICP
APA Director of Outreach and International Programs

• National Endowment for the Arts Design Program, Administrator/Director
• Center for Rural Pennsylvania, Director
• American Historical Preservation Association member
• Master's degrees in City and Regional Planning at Harvard University graduate School of Design and Kennedy School of Public Administration
• Bachelor's degree in Natural Science from Colgate University

Yuan Liu
Senior Advisor to APA Asia Program
American Planning Association Advisor

• Lecture at Harvard University East Asian Department
• Doctoral Candidate and Master of Filming and Anthropology at Brandeis University
• Master of Chinese Ancient Architecture and Historic Preservation at Qinghua University, China
• Bachelor of Archaeology at Beijing University, China

Chen Shuning
Chief Representative of APA in China
Chief Economist

• Shanghai Finance Bureau Director, Financial Research Director 1973-1993
• Shanghai Pudong Land Development Inc. Vice President, 1993-1999
• Shanghai Pudong State-owned Property Management Office Deputy Director, 1999-2002
• Bachelor of Arts, Fudan University Chinese Language and Literature Department, 1978-1982

Sun Hengzhi
Chief Advisor

• Shanghai Science Society Economic Research Department, Chief Assistant to the director, 1979
• Shanghai Communism Party Committee Research Department, Deputy Director, 1986
• Shanghai Xinda Investment Consultant Inc. President, 1992
• Bachelor of Physics at Nanjing Normal University, 1977

Mona Zhao
Senior Advisor for Government Relationships

• Special Assistant to James Lilley, Former U.S. Ambassador to China
• Master of Business Administration, University of Maryland
• Bachelor of Economics and Japanese Literature, Middlebury College

Tianjin Luo, AICP
China Projects Coordinator

• Senior Planner, Greater Baltimore Regional Planning Commission
• APA Maryland Chapter Newsletter Editor
• Planner, Charlottesville Planning Department, Virginia
• Master of Urban Planning, Virginia University
• B.S. Florida State University