Tariq H. Malik is a professor of interdisciplinary studies at Liaoning University, and is the founding director of a research centre in China, Singapore and the UK. He received his PhD from the University of London, UK. He has received multiple awards as a scholar, and has found human capital development sclerosis in the world in general and in China in particular. He is a creative writer who proports that the sciences alone do not solve the socio-economic problems of world; it is the combination of the arts that complement the sciences.