Andong Lu is currently Professor and Vice-dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Nanjing University. He was a Fellow of Wolfson College and Isaac Newton Trust Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He is the China representative at the UIA's Work Programme on Public Space, UIA, a board member of the Committee of Urban Design, Committee of Architectural Critics, and Committee of Architectural Media, Architectural Society of China. He served as Chief Curator of the Chinese Pavilion, 2018 London Design Biennale, master planner of the UNESCO City of Literature, Nanjing, and Chief Curator of the 9th Bi-City Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, 2022. Andong Lu received his B.Arch. degree from Tsinghua University and M.Phil. and PhD from the University of Cambridge.