Yun-han Chu is Distinguished Research Fellow of Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica and Professor of Political Science at National Taiwan University. He serves concurrently as President of Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. He has been the Coordinator of Asian Barometer Survey, a regional network of survey on democracy, governance and development covering more than eighteen Asian countries. He also serves as Co-chair of the Executive Council of Global Barometer Surveys, the world's largest social science survey research network. Prof. Chu was past President of Chinese Association of Political Science (Taipei) in 2003-2005, and a member of the Council of American Political Science Association (2009-2011). Among his many international advisory roles, he is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Institute of Chinese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2012, he was elected an Academician of Academia Sinica, the country’s highest academic honor, and in 2016 a Fellow of World Academy of Science (TWAS）. He currently serves on the editorial board of Journal of Democracy, China Journal, China Review, Journal of Contemporary China, International Studies Perspectives, and Journal of East Asian Studies.