On October 11, President Liu Changming gave the welcoming remarks at the opening session of the Second Asian Population Forum. Before his remarks, he met with scholars from The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), based in Laxenburg, Austria, who came to Shanghai University to attend the Forum.
The delegates from IIASA included Professor Wolfgang Lutz, Director of the IIASA World Population Program, Dr. Yoshihide Wada, Director of the IIASA Water Program, and Raya Muttarak, Deputy Director of the IIASA World Population Program. Professor Lutz and other IIASA guests congratulated Shanghai University on its success in establishing and developing ADRI and expressed their ongoing intention to assist and collaborate with ADRI and other scholars at Shanghai University.
President Liu expressed his appreciation for the strong support ADRI has received from IIASA collaborators and stated that Shanghai University would provide further support for developing ADRI’s work to bridge the natural and social sciences and carry out multidisciplinary research and training on population and sustainable development. Former research scholars of IIASA and now professors at ADRI of Shanghai University also attended the meeting, including Leiwen Jiang, Samir KC, Guy Able, and Guillaume Marois, as well Shanghai University Professor Yuzhao Liu, who represented the School of Sociology and Political Sciences.
