Prof. ZUO Ting is a professor of   rural development and management studies and social security studies in   College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricutural University.   He is a member of Consulting Committee of State Council Leading Group of Poverty   Reduction, Standing Member of China Association of Social Security Studies,   Vice Chairman of Social Assistance Association of China Association of Social   Security Studies and member of International Association of Studies for   Commons （IASC）. He is also   the deputy director of China Policy Research Center for Green Development and   Eco-Compensation, China Agricultural University and NDRC. He was deputy dean   of College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricutural   University (2002-2014) and deputy director of the Institute of Rural   Economics, Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences (1992-2000).

Prof. Zuo Ting has education   background in environmental economics and natural resource management,   conservation biology, and mathematics. He has been working in agriculture   & rural development, poverty reduction, community-based natural resource   management and rural public policies since 1989. He is also actively engaged   in international development projects in China as consultant for multilateral   and bilateral development agencies. He has extensive professional   international experiences in Thailand, Lao PDR, Indonesia, Mexico, Ecuador,   Columbia, South Africa, USA, Netherland, Czech Republic, Bangladesh, etc.His   teaching subjects/areas include Public Policy And Analysis, Governance and   Public Management on Rural Development, Social Security and Poverty Reduction   in China, etc. He was senior visiting fellow of Ghent University, Belgium on   sustainable agriculture and rural development (2017), University of Groningen,   Netherland on comparative social policies related to family farm and   humanitarianism aid (2015) , the University of Illinois, USA on rural   livelihoods vulnerability studies(2013).He has published more than two   hundred acdemic papers and more than twenty books in the area of public   policy and governance, poverty reduction and rural development, social   security, agriculture extention.

左停，担任中国农业大学国家乡村振兴研究院副院长，人文与发展学院教授，公共管理专业博士生导师。兼任国务院扶贫开发领导小组专家咨询委员会委员，中央统战部党外知识分子建言献策专家组农业组成员、秘书长，中国社会保障学会常务理事、社会救助分会副会长，中国管理现代化研究会公共管理分会理事。曾赴美国伊利诺伊大学、荷兰格罗宁根大学和比利时根特大学任高级访问学者。

长期以来，从事农村发展、精准扶贫和农村社会保障领域的公共管理和公共政策研究。近５年在《中国行政管理》、《公共行政评论》、《中国农村经济》等期刊发表CSSCI期刊论文48篇（第一作者或通讯作者），多篇被文摘类期刊全文转载（包括新华文摘），一篇论文被引500余次。在精准扶贫领域担任国家社科基金重大课题“脱真贫、真脱贫的跟踪评估研究”首席科学家，并主持近10项民政部、国务院扶贫办和团中央政策精准扶贫研究项目。在农村发展和乡村振兴领域共出版3本专著，有3项政策研究成果获国务院副总理批示；出版专著1部，有1项研究课题获总理批示和其他研究项目，关于公益性岗位扶贫的政策建议纳入无党派人士在国务院政府工作报告座谈会上发言；在社会保障减贫领域出版专著1部，有2项成果分获国务院总理、全国政协主席批示，关于保障性扶贫的政策建议纳入全国政协常委会会议材料。