黄平，社会学博士（1991,伦敦经济政治学院[LSE]），中国社会科学院研究员、中国社会科学院欧洲研究所所长。主持过国家社会科学基金课题、中国社会科学院重大课题以及联合国、欧盟、世界银行、亚洲开发银行等资助的研究课题和发展项目，并参与组织了2010年“中欧文化高峰论坛”等大型高层学术交流活动。

黄平的研究领域包括社会发展、全球化与中国道路、多元现代性、中美关系、欧洲社会等，主要著作包括：《未完成的叙说》、《误导与发展》、《梦里家国：社会发展，全球化，中国道路》、《我们的时代：现代中国从哪里来、到哪里去？》（与韩毓海、姚洋合著）。主编过《与地球重新签约》、《公共性的重建》（上、下册）、《本土全球化》、《华侨华人在中国软实力建设中的作用》、《中国与全球化：华盛顿共识还是北京共识？》（与崔之元合编）、《面对面的距离》、《中欧关系与“一带一路”》（与赵晨合编）、China CEEC Cooperation and the Belt and Road Initiative、The Stakeholders in China CEEC Cooperation（与刘作奎合编）等。

Huang Ping, Ph.D.in Sociology (LSE, London, 1991), Senior Research Fellow(1997-), is Director General, Institute of European Studies Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Secretary General, China-CEEC Think Tank Network, President, Chinese Association of American Studies, and has been Vice Presidents for the China National Association of International Relations, Chinese Association of World Politics Studies, Chinese Association of European Studies, and China Association for Hong Kong Macao Studies, he is also the Co-Chair, European Institut Transcultural.

Before he took current positions, Prof. Huang was the Deputy Director General, Institute of Sociology, Director General, Institute of American Studies, CASS, and was elected as Vice President, International Social Science Council (ISSC, 2005-2008), Vice President, International Institute of Sociology (IIS, 2003-2013), Vice Chairman, Management of Social Transformation (MOST, UNESCO, 2001-2005). He is in the editorial board in British Journal of Sociology, Current Sociology, Comparative Sociology, Global Social Policy, Sociology of Development, and Journal of Migration, etc.

Huang has published books and papers on development, poverty, migration, modernity, China-US and China-Europe relations. he was a visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins University, Duke University, Oxford, etc.