Peng Zhao was a Visiting Scholar at the Petrie-Flom Center in the 2015-2016 academic year. He earned his BA (2003), MA (2009), and PhD (2009) in law from the China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL, Beijing). During his time at the Center, Peng was associate professor of law and deputy dean of the Institute of Law-based Government at CUPL. His research and teaching interests include food law, administrative law, and risk regulation theory. He was author of more than a dozen articles on food law and risk regulation theory, and was presiding over two research projects sponsored by the Chinese central government on these two fields.