The Seventh Advisory Board Meeting of Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management was held in Beijing on October 31, 2006. After the meeting, Honorary Chairman Zhu Rongji and State Councilor Chen Zhili met with the attending board members in The Great Hall of the People.
Gu Binglin, President of Tsinghua University and Vice Chair of the Advisory Board, hosted the board meeting as Chairman. Zhang Xinsheng, Vice-Minister of Education, was invited to make a speech. The 21 other attending board members, including world famous entrepreneurs and scholars, included: Craig R. Barrett, Chairman of Intel Corporation; Houghton Freeman, Chairman of the Freeman Foundation; Christopher B. Galvin, Chairman and Co-founder of Harrison Street Capital; Maurice R. Greenberg, Chairman and CEO of C. V. STARR & Co., Inc.; Robert Greifeld, President and CEO of theNASDAQ Stock Market; Nobuyuki Idei, Chief Corporate Advisor and Chairman of the Advisory Board of Sony Corporation; Dr. Irwin M. Jacobs, Chairman of Qualcomm Incorporated; Edward C. Johnson 3d, Chairman and CEO of Fidelity Investments; Gerard J. Kleisterlee, President & CEO of Royal Philips Electronics; Li Rongrong, Director of the State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council; Liu Mingkang, Chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission; Donald John Roberts, Senior Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University; Alan White, Executive Associate Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management; H. Lee Scott, Jr., President and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.; Dr. Keiji Tachikawa, President of Japan Aerospace Exploration and Member of the Board and Corporate Adviser of NTT DoCoMo, Inc.; John L. Thornton, Professor and Director of the Global Leadership Program of Tsinghua University and Retired President and Member of the Board of Directors of the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.; Joseph M. Tucci, Chairman, President and CEO of EMC Corporation; Wang Dazhong, Former President of Tsinghua University; Dr. Victor K. Fung, Chairman of the Li and Fung Group of Companies; Marjorie Yang, Chairman and CEO of Esquel Group; and Zhao Chunjun, Former Dean of Tsinghua SEM.
At the board meeting, Qian Yingyi, Dean of Tsinghua SEM, reported to the board members on the School’s progress in the past year in education, research and program development. The members then participated in a heated discussion on the topics of “capturing the unique Chinese experience” and “student and faculty development”.
Other board members-- Ma Kai, Minister of the National Development and Reform Commission, Zhou Xiaochuan, Governor of the People’s Bank of China, Wang Qishan, Mayor of Beijing’s Municipal Government, and Guo Shuqing, Chairman of China Construction Bank Corporation-- attended the meeting with Zhu Rongji and Chen Zhili. The board members and other participants attended a banquet after the meeting. Zhou Ji, Minister of Education, Tsinghua President Gu Binglin, Chen Xi, Chairman of the Tsinghua Council, He Jiankun, Executive Vice President of Tsinghua University, and Vice President Xie Weihe were also present at the meeting and the banquet.
The Advisory Board of Tsinghua SEM was established in October 2000. Currently, it has 42 members, composed of board chairs, presidents and CEOs of well-known international and national enterprises, deans of MIT-Sloan and Stanford Business School, and heads from government agencies. Zhu Rongji is the Honorary Chairman and attended the first and second Advisory Board meetings. Henry Paulson, the new U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, served as the first board chair from October 2000 to June 2002. Lord John Browne, Group Chief Executive of BP PLC., is the current chair.
Since the Advisory Board was established 6 years ago, the members have actively participated in the development of Tsinghua SEM, giving strategic advice, promoting faculty development and extensive international collaboration, helping the School invite world-famous scholars to be chairmen and special-term professors, and establishing the China Center for Financial Research, the Center for China in the World Economy, and the China Retail Research Center. They also work together to secure funding for other important research projects.
(From Department of Economics and Management)
