郭可博士为上海外国语大学新闻学院教授、院长、国际关系博士点博导、上外中国国际舆情研究中心主任，学术兼职包括国务院新闻办对外传播学术委员会委员、教育部新闻传播学科教育指导委员会委员、复旦大学信息与传播研究中心研究员和中华传媒网特约专家。
先后获得浙江大学英语语言文学专业学士学位，上海外国语大学国际新闻学士学位，(美)堪萨斯州立大学新闻学硕士学位和复旦大学传播学博士学位。
过去20年中，一直从事国际传播学、对外传播学、国际新闻报道、新闻传播比较研究、国际新闻教育等方面的研究。已出版了二部专著《国际传播学导论》和《当代对外传播》。其学术成果还包括50多篇学术论文（包括10多篇英语论文）和五部译著，担任了新华出版社出版的《西方新闻传播学经典文库》（共28本）、《全球青少年媒体消费比较研究》主编和《全球传媒报告》的副主编。
参加过多次国际性新闻传播学学术会议和国内新闻学教育和学术会议。策划并组织了1993年和1999年的上外传播学国际研讨会、2006年首届中外新闻学院院长国际研讨会和2008年全球青少年媒体消费国际研讨会。
目前正主持教育部新闻学特色专业项目和一项国家级的社科基金项目以及上外的211项目和校级重大项目，完成了五项省级以上的新闻传播学科研项目，其包括一项复旦大学传播学基地项目的子课题、二项上海市十五规划项目和三项上海市教委科研项目。
过去三年中，其政策性研究成果为国新办、外交部、中央级外宣媒体以及上海市宣传部等部门提供了有价值的借鉴。
Dr. GUO Ke is professor & dean of the School of International Journalism, director of the Center of Global Public Opinion of China at Shanghai International Studies University (SISU). He holds a BA degree in English Linguistics and Literature from Zhejiang University and a BA degree in International Journalism from SISU, a MS degree in Journalism from Kansas State University, USA (under the 1995-1996 Fulbright Grant), and a Ph.D.degree in Mass Communication from Fudan University, China.
Dr. GUO is also one of the founding members of SISU’s international journalism program both at the undergraduate and graduate levels, which is known as a pioneer of bilingual journalism education in China.
He is also a member of the China Association of Journalism & Communications Education, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), USA, and a member of the Journalism Education Supervisory & Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Education of China. Dr. GUO is now actively promoting journalism education accreditation among Chinese journalism education programs.

In the past 20 years, Dr. GUO’s research focus has included international communication, global media (particularly the English-language media in a non-English environment), global public opinion, media effect and evaluation as well as international journalism education models and accreditation. He has published two academic books on international communication and media effect and evaluation, and more than 50 academic papers, in both Chinese and English. He has also organized four international conferences on media, communication and journalism education and has been involved in several national and international research projects on global media, English-language media in Chinaand international journalism education.