Professor at the School of Economics and Management, Beijing Institute of Technology
Erdong Zhao is a professor in the School of Economics and Management at Beijing Institute of Technology. He holds a BA and MA in history from Jilin University and earned his Ph.D. in economics from Wuhan University in China. From 2010 to 2011, he served as a research fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.In 2014, Zhao received the National Excellent Video Open Course Award for his course “Power of Communication” from China’s Ministry of Education. This course was also selected as a NETEASE Video Open Course in 2015, ranking among the top ten in views for eight consecutive months, with over 200,000 students participating by May 2020. Additionally, he won first prize in the Online Micro-lecture Teaching Contest held by China’s Ministry of Education for his course “Personality and Occupational Choices” in 2015.