President, Peking University

Professor HAO Ping is an internationally-recognized writer and scholar with a successful career in Government and University administration. Having served as Vice Minister of Education, he acted as the Chair of the University Council of Peking University from December 2016 to October, 2018.
Professor Hao Ping was born in Qingdao, Shandong Province. He gained his Bachelor’s degree in history at Peking University (1982) and received his Master’s degree in history at the University of Hawaiʻi (1995) and later a Ph.D. degree at Peking University (1999) in international relations. He joined the workforce in August, 1982.
Professor Hao has enjoyed a life-long association with Peking University, first attending at the age of 19 to study History. Following his graduation he remained at the University, and has successively assumed the administrative positions at the Office of Policy Research, the President’s Office, the Office of Student Affairs, and the Office of International Relations, Peking University. Later, Professor Hao served as the Assistant President, the Deputy Secretary-General of PKU Education Foundation and then Vice President of Peking University.
In 2005, Professor Hao became the President of Beijing Foreign Studies University. Later, he was appointed in 2009 Vice Minister of Education, Executive Member of the CPC Leading Group of Ministry of Education, Chairperson of Chinese National Commission for UNESCO and Executive Member of the Council of the Confucius Institute Headquarters. In 2013, he was elected as the President of the 37th session of the General Conference, UNESCO; the first ever Chinese to hold this position.
Professor Hao returned to Peking University in December, 2016 and serves as the Chair of the University Council. From October, 2018, he became the President of Peking University. He is an Alternate Member of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and also a Member of the National Committee of the 11th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).
Professor Hao has published a number of academic papers and three books, which are Peking University and the Origins of Higher Education in China (1998, later translated in English, Russian and Korean), Sun Yat-sen and America (2000, later translated in English) and John Leighton Stuart and China (2011).
Professor Hao Ping is being recognized for his achievements as a scholar and a distinguished university leader, and for the major contribution that he has made to the internationalization of Higher Education in China in his capacity as Vice-Minister of Education. The intensity and quality of international collaboration that Chinese universities engage in today is in no small part thanks to his leadership and vision.