Roland Boer is an "overseas talent" professor in the School of Philosophy at Renmin University of China. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from McGill University, in Montreal, Canada, and was formerly Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Newcastle, Australia, and Professor in the School of Marxism at Dalian University of Technology. His research interests include Marxist philosophy, political philosophy, and Marxist literary criticism. Since 1994, he has published 27 monographs and more than 300 academic articles, and his research has had a significant impact on the international scholarly community with translations into many languages.

In 2014, he was awarded the Deutscher Memorial Prize for his five-volume work, The Criticism of Heaven and Earth . In more recent years, Roland Boer has devoted his attention to Chinese Marxism, publishing in 2021 a widely-read and much-cited monograph entitled Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners . His most recent monographs are Friedrich Engels and the Foundations of Socialist Governance (2021) and Socialism in Power: On the History and Theory of Socialist Governance (2023).