Alan Hudson is a visiting professor at the Shanghai Administrative Institute, and a visiting professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University and the China Executive Leadership Academy Pudong (CELAP), where he is the director of the Oxford University/CELAP Centre for Urban Studies. The centre has produced Chinese language reports on public private partnerships, innovation, and urban change. The latter is the basis for his recent co-authored book Chinese Urban Transformation: A Tale of Six Cities (RIBA 2018). In 2013, Alan was presented with the Golden Magnolia Award for outstanding service to the city of Shanghai.