Mette Halskov Hansen，Born:1962, Copenhagen ；Education: Master in Chinese (with social anthropology and history of literature) 1991; Phd in Chinese studies 1996, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Employment: Professor in Chinese studies; Dean of research at the Faculty of Humanities 2007-10; Head of the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages 2005-06; Head of the Department of East European and Oriental Studies 2004-05; post-doc 1996-99 at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo.