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Faculty & Guest Speakers

Cutting-edge senior leaders in business, global public policy, economics, international affairs and more teach at Schwarzman Scholars. Scroll down to meet some of our faculty.

Faculty

Amitav Acharya

Distinguished Professor and the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance, School of International Service, American University

Yuen Yuen Ang

Alfred Chandler Chair of Political Economy, Johns Hopkins University

Melissa Berman

Founding President and CEO of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc

Madeline Carr

Tencent Visiting Chair in Technology, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University; Professor of Global Politics and Cybersecurity at University College London

George Chen

Senior Fellow, Centre for Civil Society and Governance, The University of 
Hong Kong

Chen Jidong

Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Management and Research Fellow of the Center for Industrial Development and Environmental Governance (CIDEG), Tsinghua University

Jake Cohen

Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Law, Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate and Master’s Programs at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sarah Cook

Professor and Head of School of Economics, University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC)

Deborah Davis

Professor Emerita of Sociology, Yale University

Gary Dexter

Former Lecturer in Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Visiting Faculty, School of Public Policy, Gitam University

Karl Eikenberry

Johnson & Johnson Visiting Chair in Leadership, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University; Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan; Lieutenant General, U.S. Army, Retired

Fu Chengyu

Chairman of China Petroleum and Chemical Corp (Sinopec)

Gao Xudong

Professor of Economics and Management in the Department of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University

He Jianyu

Associate Professor in the School of Marxism, Tsinghua University

Arnold M. Howitt

Faculty Co-Director of the Program on Crisis Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Jasmine Hu

Citi Chair in International Business, Schwarzman College; Professor of Management at the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University

Yanzhong Huang

Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations; Professor, Seton Hall University School of Diplomacy and International Relations

Emily Jones

Associate Professor of Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, 
University of Oxford

Michael M. Kaiser

Chairman of the DeVos Institute of Arts Management (University of Maryland) and President Emeritus of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Angela Kane

Senior Adviser at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (Washington, DC); Professor, Sciences Po (Paris) and Diplomatic Academy (Vienna); Vice President, International Institute for Peace (Vienna); former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, with postings in New York, Asia (Thailand and Indonesia), and Africa (Ethiopia/Eritrea and the Democratic Republic of Congo)

Joan Kaufman

Senior Director for Academic Programs at Schwarzman Scholars; Lecturer in Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Beth Keck

Fellow, The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies China Research Center; Former Senior Director, Women’s Economic Empowerment and Sustainability, Walmart Stores, Inc.

Jianxi Luo

Associate Professor of Design & Artificial Intelligence, Founding Director of Data-Driven Innovation Lab, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

Meng Ke

Associate Professor, School of Public Policy & Management, Tsinghua University

Meng Tianguang

Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean in the School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University

Gyude Moore

Boeing Visiting Chair in International Relations, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University; Senior Policy Fellow at the Center for Global Development

Katherine Morton

External Associate of the China Centre at the University of Oxford and an Associate Fellow at Chatham House

Barry Naughton

So Kwanlok Professor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego

David Q. Pan

Executive Dean and Professor, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University

Peng Kaiping

Chair of the Department of Psychology, Tsinghua University

Paul Pickowicz

Research Professor at the University of California, San Diego

Jeremias Adams-Prassl

Professor of Law in the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Magdalen College, Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Law

June Qian

Professor of the School of Economics and Management and Associate Dean of Academics, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University

Molly Roberts

Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at the University of California, San Diego

David Sandalow

Inaugural Fellow, Center on Global Energy Policy and Co-Director, Energy and Environment Concentration, School of International and Public Affairs, 
Columbia University

Denis Simon

Bank of America Visiting Chair in International Finance, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University

Shi Anbin

Ministry of Education Endowment Professor of Global Media and Communication Studies in the School of Journalism and Communication and Director of Israel Epstein Center for Global Media and Communication, Tsinghua University

Susan Shirk

Research Professor and director emeritus of the 21st Century China Center, School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego

Hugo Slim

Senior Research Fellow at the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice at Blackfriars Hall at the University of Oxford; former Head of Policy and Humanitarian Diplomacy at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Barbara Stallings

Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University

Sun Xuefeng

Professor of International Relations at the Department of International Relations, Executive Deputy Dean of the Institute of International Relations, Tsinghua University

Tang Min

Counsellor of the State Council; Vice Chairman of You Change China Social Entrepreneur Foundation

Tang Xiaoyang

Professor and Chair in the Department of International Relations, 
Tsinghua University

Moshik Temkin

Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 
Harvard University

Anna Triandafyllidou

Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University

Vasilis Trigkas

Visiting Assistant Professor, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University

Andrew Walder

Denise O’Leary and Kent Thiry Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Senior Fellow in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

Wang Hui

Founding Director of the Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences (TIAS), Tsinghua University and Distinguished Professor of Literature and History at Tsinghua University

Wang Zheng

Director of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS) and a Professor of the School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University

Montgomery Van Wart

Professor, California State University, San Bernardino, California

Lola R. Woetzel

Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Co; Senior Partner Emerita, McKinsey & Co.

Christine Wong

Visiting Research Professor, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore

John Zhuang Yang

Professor Emeritus of Management, National School of Development (NSD), Peking University

Zeng Yi

Professor of AI at Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Zha Daojiong

Professor in the School of International Studies and the Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development, Peking University

Zhang Junjie

Professor, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University; Director, Initiative for Sustainable Investment, Duke Kunshan University 

Zheng Lu

Volkswagen Visiting Chair in Sustainability, Schwarzman College; Associate Professor of Sociology, RONG Professor in Data Science, Tsinghua University

Guest Speakers

Schwarzman Scholars is proud to feature an ongoing series of high-profile lectures by distinguished leaders in politics, business, the arts and civil society.

Condoleezza Rice

66th United States Secretary Of State

Dambisa Moyo

Economist & Best-Selling Author

Darren Walker

President, Ford Foundation

Fareed Zakaria

Host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS

Indra Nooyi

Former Chairman & CEO of PepsiCo

Joshua Cooper Ramo

Co-CEO & Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates

Kai-Fu Lee

Chairman & CEO, Sinovation Ventures; President, Sinovation Ventures Artificial Intelligence Institute

Lawrence Summers

President Emeritus at Harvard University, Former US Secretary of the Treasury

Richard Haass

President, Council On Foreign Relations

Robert Smith

Founder, Chairman & CEO of Vista Equity Partners

Tony Blair

Former Prime Minister of Great Britain & Northern Ireland

Yinuo Li

Senior Advisor, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation China Program

Zhang Xin

Co-Founder & CEO, SOHO China