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Faculty & Guest Speakers

Cutting-edge senior leaders and academics in business, global public policy, economics, international affairs and more teach at Schwarzman Scholars. Scroll down to meet our 2026-2027 faculty.

Faculty

Amitav Acharya

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

Jeremias Adams-Prassl

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

Charles Amo-Agyemang

Senior Lecturer, University of Ghana, Legon-Accra

Yuen Yuen Ang

Alfred Chandler Chair of Political Economy, Johns Hopkins University

Melissa Berman

Founding President and CEO of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Inc

Thomas Biersteker

Gasteyger Professor Honoraire, Geneva Graduate Institute in Switzerland; Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, UN University

Madeline Carr

Professor of Global Politics and Cybersecurity, University College London

Siddharth Chatterjee

CEO of Global Neighbours; former United Nations Resident Coordinator in China

George Chen

Senior Fellow, Centre for Civil Society and Governance, The University of 
Hong Kong; Partner and Chair, Digital Practice, The Asia Group

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

Associate Dean of Global EMBA and Executive Education, Clinical Professor of Accounting and Business Law, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Jean-Marc Coicaud

Distinguished Professor of Law and Global Affairs, Rutgers University

Sarah Cook

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

Da Wei

Director, Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS); Professor, Department of International Relations, Tsinghua University

Karl Eikenberry

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

Gao Xudong

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

Gu Jing

Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

He Jianyu

Associate Professor in the School of Marxism, Tsinghua University

Jasmine Hu

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

Hu Xiaoran

Assistant Professor of Management, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Vuk Jeremić

Professor of Practice, Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs; Senior Advisor to Eurasia Group

Jia Xijin

Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Management; Vice Dean, Institute for Philanthropy, Tsinghua University

Emily Jones

Professor of Practice of Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
Sophia Kalantzakos

Sophia Kalantzakos

Volkswagen Visiting Chair in Sustainability, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University; Global Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Public Policy, SMSP Program, NYU Abu Dhabi

Angela Kane

Visiting Professor, SciencesPo Paris; Vice President, International Institute for Peace Vienna, former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations

Joan Kaufman

Senior Director for Academic Programs at Schwarzman Scholars; Lecturer in Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School; Visiting Professor, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University

Elizabeth Knup

Honorary Senior Fellow, Center for China Analysis, Asia Society Policy Institute; former Regional Director for China, Ford Foundation

Aynne Kokas

C.K. Yen Professor at the Miller Center, Professor of Media Studies, University of Virginia; Chancellor's Visiting Professor, Lund University, Sweden

Zoe Zongyuan Liu

Bank of America Visiting Chair in International Finance, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University; Maurice R. Greenberg Senior Fellow for China Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

Lu Yao

Associate Dean of Academics, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University; Professor of Finance and Director, China Center for Financial Research, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University; Academic Director, TIEMBA (Tsinghua-INSEAD EMBA)

Rohinton P. Medhora

Professor of Practice, Institute for the Study of International Development, McGill University

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

Non-Resident Fellow, Center for Global Development

Katherine Morton

External Associate, Oxford China Centre; Associate Professorial Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

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

Department of Psychology, Tsinghua University

Paul G. Pickowicz

Research Professor, University of California, San Diego

June Qian

Senior Academic Advisor, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University; Professor, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University

David Sandalow

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

Denis Simon

Senior Fellow, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft; Senior Fellow, Center for China and Globalization; Chairman, Alliance of Global Talent Organizations

Hugo Slim

Director of the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice at Blackfriars Hall at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict at the Blavatnik School of Government

Song Nianshen

Professor, Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University

Sun Xuefeng

Professor of International Relations, Department of International Relations; Dean of 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

Faculty Affiliate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University

Vasilis Trigkas

Assistant Professor of Global Affairs, Schwarzman College and Department of International Relations, Tsinghua University; Senior Advisor for International Students and Scholars Affairs, Tsinghua University

Paul Triolo

Partner and Technology Policy Lead, DGA Albright Stonebridge Group; Honorary Senior Fellow, Center for China Analysis, Asia Society Policy Institute

Tsu Jing

Inaugural Jonathan D. Spence Chair in Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale 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

Lola R. Woetzel

Founder and Managing Partner, Global6; Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Co.; Senior Partner Emerita, McKinsey & Co.

Christine Wong

Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University

Zhang Qi

Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research Center, Microsoft

Zhang Yang

Associate Professor, School of International Service, American University

Zheng Lu

Professor, Schwarzman College; Professor of Sociology, 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. Scroll down to see some of the speakers who have joined Scholars across the years of the program.

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

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

Zhang Xin

Co-Founder & CEO, SOHO China