Dr. Peter Qiu is the Founder and President of the Center for Globalization Hong Kong, the first think tank in Hong Kong dedicated to the study of globalization. He also teaches as a guest lecturer at the School of Communication and the School of Social Science at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) and also as a guest Professor at three leading universities in Shanghai.

Dr. Peter Qiu was also a former television commentator at Phoenix Satellite Television and directed three online radio programmes.

Dr. Peter Qiu studied his bachelor degree at the East China Normal University from 1980 to 1984, followed by a three-year master's degree at the Tongji University in Shanghai. From 1992 to 1997 he received a scholarship from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and obtained his doctorate degree at the Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen in Germany.

From 1991 to 1997, Dr. Peter Qiu worked as a correspondent for the Chinese Department of the foreign radio station of Deutsche Welle in Germany. After his promotion, he went to Hong Kong and worked for a number of newspapers and magazines in Hong Kong before becoming the head of the PR department at WellNet Holdings Limited from 2000-2002. Later on, he worked for two years as a correspondent for the China Editorial Department of Deutsche Welle in Hong Kong.

Dr. Peter Qiu has been a television commentator at Phoenix TV since 2004. He had also hosted his weekly programs - "Peter Qiu's Talk" and the "Strategy Room", with over 200 million viewers worldwide, until 2017.

Dr. Qiu is an author of a number of bestsellers in Hong Kong and Mainland China which include: "Are Chinese People Mature?" (2013), "The Biggest Risk for China Between 2014 and 2017" (2014), "Insights and Upheavals in China's Dealing with the Rest of the World" (2015) and "Configuration for 2020's" (2018).