Dean of Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University, China
Dr. Lan Xue is a Distinguished Professor of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Tsinghua University, where he also serves as the Director of the Institute for AI International Governance, Director of the China Institute for Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Director of the Global Institute for SDGs. His teaching and research interests include global governance, crisis management, as well as science, technology, and innovation policy. From 2000 to 2018, he served as Associate Dean, Executive Associate Dean and Dean of the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University. Currently, he also serves as a Counsellor of the State Council, Co-convener of the Public Administration Discipline Evaluation Group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, Chair of China’s National Expert Committee on Next Generation AI governance, and a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese Association of Science and Technology. He is an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University and a non-resident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution. He is a board member of the UN Sustainable Development Solution Network, and a member of the UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration and the inaugural Internet Governance Forum Leadership Panel.
Dr. Xue is a recipient of the Distinguished Young Scholar Award from National Natural Science Foundation of China, Cheung Kong Chair Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education, the Fudan Distinguished Contribution Award for Management Science, the Distinguished Contribution Award from Chinese Association for Science of Science and S&T Policy, and the Second National Award for Excellence in Innovation in China. He holds a PhD in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University.