朱伟东，河南省汝南县人，法学博士，中国非洲研究院、中国社会科学院西亚非洲研究所研究员、博士生导师，中国社会科学院首届领军人才。自2008年起，他先后在剑桥大学法学院进行博士后研究，在首尔国立大学法学院任访问研究员；曾被评为湖南省青年骨干教师、湖南省121人才工程第三层次人选、国务院政府特殊津贴专家。朱伟东在国内外出版社出版非洲法方面的专著、译著8部，在《西亚非洲》、Journal of African Law，Penant，Journal of South African Law，Journal of Private International Law，Yearbook of Private International Law，Journal of International Arbitration等国内外报刊发表各类文章200多篇。他还主持非洲法方面的国家社科课题3项，外交部中非联合计划课题2项；他还是中国国际私法学会常务理事，中国民族法学研究会理事，中国非洲史学会理事，中国亚非学会理事，英国Cambridge Journal of China Studies杂志编委，南非Journal of Law，Society and Development杂志国际顾问委员会委员，南部非洲仲裁基金（南非）、上海国际仲裁中心等国内外多家仲裁机构仲裁员，兼职律师。

Zhu Weidong,native of Runan County,Henan Province,doctor of law,is a professor and senior researd fellow at the Institute of West Asia and African Studies,Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.Since 2008,he has been a postdoctoral fellow at Cambridge Law School and a visiting fellow at the Law School of Seoul National University.He has been awarded as the Excellent Young Teacher of Hunan Province,the candidate of the third level of the“121 Talent Project”of Hunan Province,and the expert to enjoy the special government allowances issued by the State Council.He has published 8 monographs and translated works on African laws in domestic and foreign publishing houses,and has published over 200 papers in West Asia and Africa,Journal of African Law,Penant,Journal of South African Law,Journal of Private International Law,Yearbook of Private International Law and Journal of International Arbitration,etc.He was also responsible for 3 national social science research concerning African laws,and 2 research projects of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' China-Africa Joint Research Plan.He is standing director of China Private International Law Society,director of Chinese Minority Law Association,African History Association,and China Asia-Africa Association,editor of Cambridge Journal of China Studies,international advisory board member of Journal of Law,Society and Revelopment.