Founders
Jonathan R. Woetzel
Jonathan Woetzel is a Director in McKinsey & Company’s Greater China Office where he has worked for the past 25 years. He oversees the McKinsey Global Institute in Asia and has led McKinsey’s Energy and Materials practice in Asia and its Corporate Finance practice in China.
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XUE Lan
Dr. XUE Lan is Professor and Dean of the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University, Executive Vice President of the Development Research Academy for the 21st Century, and Director of the China Institute for Science and Technology Policy. He is also an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University. His teaching and research interests include public policy analysis and management, science and technology policy, higher education policy, and crisis management.
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Joan Kaufman
Joan Kaufman, MA, M.S., Sc.D. is the Director of Columbia Global Centers | East Asia, based in Beijing. Prior to taking up her Columbia position, she was Lecturer in Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Principal and Faculty Affiliate of the Hauser Center for Non Profit Organizations at Harvard’s Kennedy School, and Distinguished Scientist and Senior Lecturer at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University where she taught on global health policy.
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