Alan Hudson (University of Oxford, MA, MSc, MPhil, FRSA) is the Director of Programmes in Leadership and Public Policy, within International Programmes, Oxford University Department for Continuing Education and a fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. He teaches sociology and contemporary history and has wide international experience teaching and working with senior officials and executives from China, USA, Russia, Latin America, India and elsewhere. Alan has wide experience in both quantitative and qualitative research and analysis and has acted as consultant in public, private and voluntary sectors. His most recent work has been on the relationship between citizens and cities with reference to urban planning and group and national identity with particular reference to public policy and the mediation between government and the lived experience of the citizen.

In the autumn of 2010 Alan was a visiting professor at the Shanghai Administrative Institute where he began a research project looking at the impact of Expo 2010 on urbanisation and city life in Shanghai. He has subsequently been a visiting professor at Fudan University, Shanghai and the Chinese Executive Leadership Academy Pudong.