Zhang Wei-Bin, Ph.D. (Umeå, Sweden), is Professor at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University since 2000. He graduated in 1982 from the Department of Geography, Beijing University. He obtained his master’s degree and completed his Ph.D. course at the Department of Civil Engineering, Kyoto University by September 1987. He completed his dissertation on economic growth theory in Sweden, by April 1989. Since then, he had been a researcher at the Swedish Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm for 10 years. His main research fields are complexity theory in economics (nonlinear economic dynamics, chaos theory, synergetic economics) and sociology, ethics (especially trust and justice), ancient Chinese thought, theory of leadership (focused on Han Feizi and Confucius), American civilization, and the economic development and modernization of Chinese societies (mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore), and Japan. He is the sole author of 410 academic articles (200 in international peer-reviewed journals) and 32 academic books in English by well-known international academic publishing houses available on Amazon’. He published two books of poetry (in Chinese) by a well-known publisher in the field. He is an editorial board member of 12 peer-review international journals. He was ranked 4 Top in World among 69211 registered authors in economics in NJP by Sep 2024 (the address below). Prof. Zhang is the editor of the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Models in Economics (in two volumes) which is a part of the unprecedented global effort, The Encyclopedias of Life Support Systems, organized by UNESCO.
