Fangqi Xu is professor of management at the Faculty of Business Administration of Kindai University in Japan. He is founding director of the Institute for Creative Management and Innovation at the university. Also, he is founding editor of Kindai Management Review, and Journal of Japanese Management.

Dr. Fangqi Xu received his MBA in Venture Business at Nihon University and Ph.D. in Knowledge Science at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. His research interests are creative management, innovation, venture, comparative study of management, and creative education. Dr. Xu has written more than 200 scholarly publications including 50 journal papers (some papers were published in The Journal of Creative Behavior, Creativity and Innovation Management, Kindai Management Review, etc.) 22 books (or book chapters), 150 conference papers and invited lectures. His representative works are Comparative Management between Japanese and Chinese Enterprises (2006) and Thinking about the Strongest Management in Asia (with I. Nonaka and H. Kim, 2013).

Dr. Xu has served many important positions in academia in Japan. He is Chairman of Japan Creativity Society, Vice-president of Japan Federation of Management related Academies, Vice-president of Japan Intellectual Capital Management Association, etc.