童世骏 Shijun Tong
童世骏，1958年9月生于上海，现任上海纽约大学校长、华东师范大学哲学系教授。
童世骏于1975年赴位于崇明岛的上海跃进农场工作，1978年进入华东师范大学学习，于1982年初和1984年底分别在该校获得哲学学士学位和哲学硕士学位，1994年在挪威卑尔根大学获得博士学位。
曾先后于1995年至1997年担任华东师范大学哲学系主任，2004年至2011年担任上海社会科学院党委副书记、后兼任哲学研究所所长，2011年至2019年担任华东师范大学党委书记。
作为哲学学者，其主要研究领域为认识论、伦理学、政治哲学及比较哲学。不仅出版中英双语学术著作十余种，发表论文百余篇，还出版了多部英语和德语著作的中文译作，其中包括尤尔根·哈贝马斯的《在事实与规范之间：关于法律和民主法治国的商谈理论》。曾先后于1998年作为客座教授在德国马堡大学工作半年，于2000至2001年作为富布莱特学者在美国哥伦比亚大学访学一年。除了在教学、研究和出版方面获得诸多荣誉奖项，他还担任教育部社会科学委员会委员，以及挪威科学与文学院外籍院士。
Tong Shijun was born in Shanghai in September 1958 and became Chancellor of NYU Shanghai in 2020 after holding a long-term position as Professor of Philosophy at East China Normal University (ECNU) since 1994.
Tong joined ECNU first as a student in 1978, after having spent three years as a farm worker on Chongming Island from 1975-1978. At ECNU he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy in 1982 and a Master of Arts degree in philosophy in 1984—the same year he began his career teaching at the university. In 1988 Tong took his first trip to Norway as a visiting scholar, and then he went on an academic journey leading to a doctoral degree at the University of Bergen in 1994.
As an administrator, Tong was Chair of ECNU’s Department of Philosophy from 1995-1997, Deputy Dean of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) from 2004-2011, Director of Philosophical Institute of SASS from 2009-2011, and ECNU’s University Council Chairman from 2011-2019.
As a philosopher, Tong specializes in epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, and comparative philosophy. He has authored more than 10 books and over 100 papers, mainly in Chinese and English, and has translated several books from English and German into Chinese, including Jürgen Habermas’s Faktizität und Geltung. In 1998, he spent six months as a guest professor at Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany and from 2000-2001 worked as a visiting research Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University in the US.
In addition to numerous awards and honors for his teachings, research, and writing, he has been a member of the Social Science Committee of China’s Ministry of Education (MOE) since 2004 and a Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi) since 2010.