Dr. William (Xiuping) Sun received his PhD in Corporate Governance from Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. He is currently Reader in Corporate Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility, and Leader of Corporate Governance and Sustainability Research Group (CGSRG) at Faculty of Business and Law, Leeds Metropolitan University, where he is also an Independent Chair for PhD Viva Voce Examinations and Course Leader of MSc Corporate Governance. He was Visiting Professor of Management at Harbin Engineering University and Visiting Professor of Harbin University of Commerce from 2008 to 2011. He was Co-Chair of the Finance and Sustainability 2010 Programme, an international research programme partnered with research institutions in France and Switzerland and with international academic associations, and Co-Chair of the Finance and Sustainability track of the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM) World Conference in 2010. He is a member of the Steering Committee of Corporate Governance as well as Corporate Social Responsibility Special Interest Groups, British Academy of Management, and Reviewer of the textbooks and book proposals on corporate governance and corporate strategy for Cambridge University Press, Routledge, and Pearson Education, UK. His areas of expertise and research interests include corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, sustainable business, business ethics, corporate strategy, corporate law, transition economics, process philosophy, and research methodology. He is an author and co-author of over 80 refereed journal and conference papers and 17 academic books on corporate governance, corporate law, and transition economics, and a co-editor of two book series (20 books) on transition economics. He is currently editor of the book series Critical Studies on Corporate Responsibility, Governance and Sustainability published by Emerald Group Publishing. His recent key publications (2004-present) include:Corporate Governance and the Global Financial Crisis: International Perspectives (2011)(Edited by W. Sun, J. Stewart and D. Pollard), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Finance and Sustainability: Towards a New Paradigm? A Post-crisis Agenda (2011) (Edited by W. Sun, C. Louche and R. Perez), Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing. Reframing Corporate Social Responsibility: Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis (2010)(Edited by W. Sun, J. Stewart and D. Pollard), Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing. "Who Is Responsible for the Financial Crisis: Lessons from a Separation Thesis" (2010) (W. Sun and L. Bellamy), in W. Sun, J. Stewart and D. Pollard (Eds), Reframing Corporate Social Responsibility: Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis, Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing. Responsible Finance (2010) (Edited by R. Perez, C. Louche and W. Sun), a special issue of the journal Economies and Societies, Vol. 44, No. 11, published by Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applied Economics (Paris, France). How to Govern Corporations So They Serve the Public Good: A Theory of Corporate Governance Emergence (2009), New York: Edward Mellen Press. "The boundaries of governance in the post-modern world" (2008) (with Kirkbride, J., Letza, S. and Smallman, C.), Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, vol. 59, no. 2, pp.161-175."Corporate governance theorising: limits, critics and alternatives" (2008) (with Letza, S., Kirkbride, J. and Smallman, C.), International Journal of Law and Management, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 17-32. "Corporate governance: towards a theory of regulatory shift" (2005) (with James, A., Kirkbride, J. and Letza, S.), European Journal of Law and Economics, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 57-70. "An analysis of Railtrack, UK through time and space" (2005) (with James, A., Kirkbride, J. and Letza, S.), Journal of Corporate Ownership & Control, vol. 2, issue 2, pp. 120-134. "Reframing privatisation: deconstructing the myth of efficiency" (2004) (with Letza, S. and Smallman, C.), Policy Sciences, vol. 37, issue 2, pp. 159-183. "Shareholding versus stakeholding: a critical review of corporate governance" (2004) (with Letza, S. and Kirkbride, J.), Corporate Governance: An International Review, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 242-246. "Philosophical and paradoxical issues in corporate governance" (2004) (with Letza, S.), International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics, Vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 27-44.