Tai Ming Cheung Appointed as New Director of IGCC
Tai Ming Cheung Appointed New Director of UC Institute on GLobal Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC)
08/02/2012
UCSD News
Tai Ming Cheung has been appointed director of the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), a multi-campus research unit (MRU) located on the campus of the University of California, San Diego. IGCC focuses on security and nuclear proliferation and examines how policy affects the state of conflict and peace.
Cheung joined IGCC upon his arrival at UC San Diego in 2004. Cheung is a professor at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) at UC San Diego. He is a longtime analyst of Chinese and East Asian defense and national security affairs, especially defense economic, industrial,science and technological issues. He has played a major role at IGCC in creating the largest research program on the study of Chinese technology and innovation policies in the U.S., which includes collaborating with a number of leading Chinese institutions. Cheung’s latest book, “Fortifying China: The Struggle to Build a Modern Defense Economy,” was published by Cornell University Press in 2009.
“I am very pleased to announce the appointment of Tai Ming Cheung as director of the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation,” said Sandra A. Brown, UC San Diego’s vice chancellor for research. “Professor Cheung has helped IGCC to move in important new directions. He has brought together scholars throughout the UC system with their counterparts from China and other leading research centers around the world, cementing IGCC’s reputation as a global center for excellence.”
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Tai Ming Cheung is an associate research scientist at the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) located at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla. He directs the Minerva program on Chinese security and technology, a multi-year academic research and training project funded by the U.S. Defense Department to explore China’s technological potential.
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