Xiaoli Lu (PhD Utrecht University) is Associate Professor at Tsinghua University’s School of Public Policy and Management, and Associate Director at Tsinghua’s Center for Crisis Management Research. Lu has published widely on topics of Crisis and Disaster Management, and Organizational issues. His most recent book is Managing Uncertainty in Crisis: Exploring the Impact of Institutionalization on Organizational Sense Making. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Science and Technology, Beijing Social Science Foundation and Beijing Earthquake Administration. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journals Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy and Journal of Risk, Disaster & Crisis Research (in Chinese), and the board of the China Society of Emergency Management. He is also the founder of the China Crisis Management Website (www.crisis119.org), and the co-founder of the Youth Sub-forum and Summer School affiliated to the Forum of Fifty on Emergency Management.