32 Notable alumni of
Beijing Foreign Studies University
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Beijing Foreign Studies University is 1292nd in the world, 282nd in Asia, and 27th in China by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 32 notable alumni from Beijing Foreign Studies University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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He Jiong
- Occupations
- actorschool teacherfilm directortelevision actorpresenter
- Biography
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He Jiong is a Chinese television host, singer, actor, director and a former Arabic lecturer in Beijing Foreign Studies University.
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Gao Xingjian
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- screenwriterplaywrightliterary criticfilm directorwriter
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Gao Xingjian is a Chinese émigré and later French naturalized novelist, playwright, critic, painter, photographer, film director, and translator who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity." He is also a noted translator (particularly of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco), screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter.
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Hu Xijin
- Enrolled in Beijing Foreign Studies University
- 1986-1989 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- editorjournalistreporter
- Biography
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Hu Xijin is a Chinese journalist who previously served as editor-in-chief and Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Global Times from 2005 to 2021.
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Yang Lan
- Occupations
- media proprietorentrepreneurjournalistpresenterbusinessperson
- Biography
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Yang Lan is a Chinese media proprietor, journalist, and talk show host. She is the co-founder and chairperson of the Sun Media Group and the Sun Culture Foundation. In 2013, she was ranked number 100 in Forbes magazine's 100 World’s Most Powerful Women.
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Li Zhaoxing
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Li Zhaoxing is a Chinese diplomat and politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of China from 2003 to 2007. He previously served as Ambassador of China to the United States from 1998 to 2001, Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations from 1993 to 1995, and deputy director and director of information department at Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1985 to 1993.
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Fu Ying
- Occupations
- politiciantranslatorinterpreterdiplomat
- Biography
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Fu Ying is a Chinese politician and diplomat, best known for her terms as the ambassador to the Philippines, Australia, and the United Kingdom, as well as Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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Jin Liqun
- Occupations
- politicianbanker
- Biography
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Jin Liqun is a Chinese banker who has been serving as the president of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank since 2016. Previously, he served as secretary general of the AIIB Interim Multilateral Secretariat from 2014 to 2016, chairman of China International Capital Corporation from 2013 to 2014, chairman of the supervisory board of China Investment Corporation from 2008 to 2013, vice president of the Asian Development Bank from 2003 to 2008, and vice minister of finance of China from 1998 to 2003.
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Victor Gao
- Enrolled in Beijing Foreign Studies University
- Studied in 1981-1983
- Occupations
- punditinternational relations scholarinterpreterlawyer
- Biography
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Victor Zhikai Gao is a Chinese lawyer, businessman, and academic who is the vice president of the Beijing-based Center for China and Globalization (CCG).
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Liu Jieyi
- Occupations
- diplomattranslator
- Biography
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Liu Jieyi is a Chinese diplomat and politician. From March 2018 to December 2022, he was director of the Taiwan Affairs Office. From 2013 to September 2017, he was China's Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) in New York City.
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Liu Jianchao
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- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Liu Jianchao is a Chinese diplomat and politician who is the current head of the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party, in office since June 2022.
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Zhang Yesui
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Zhang Yesui is a Chinese diplomat who served as the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary for the People's Republic of China. He was formerly the Chinese Ambassador to the United States. He has previously served as Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations in New York City.
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Song Jian
- Occupations
- cyberneticistmilitary flight engineer
- Biography
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Song Jian is a Chinese aerospace engineer, demographer, and politician. He was deputy chief designer of China's submarine-launched ballistic missile (JL-1) and one of the country's leading scientists in the post-Cultural Revolution era. After a decade of two-child restrictions in the 1970s, and following the Chinese government's announcement in 1979 to advocate for one child per family, he became a leading advocate for rapid implementation and broad coverage of China's one-child policy. He served in high-ranking political positions including Vice Minister of Aerospace Industry, Director of the State Science and Technology Commission (1985–1998), vice-premier-level State Councillor (1986–1998), President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Vice Chairperson of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and a member of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Wu Jianmin
- Years
- 1939-2016 (aged 77)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Wu Jianmin was a prominent Chinese diplomat. He worked as the spokesman of Chinese Foreign Ministry, ambassador of China to the Netherlands, Permanent Mission to the United Nations Office at Geneva and Other International Organizations in Switzerland, and France, and the president of the Bureau International des Expositions.
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Andy Greenberg
- Years
- 20th Century
- Enrolled in Beijing Foreign Studies University
- Studied in 2002-2002
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Andy Greenberg is a technology journalist serving as a senior writer at Wired magazine. He previously worked as a staff writer at Forbes magazine and as a contributor for Forbes.com. He has published the books This Machine Kills Secrets concerning whistleblowing, Sandworm, concerning the eponymous hacking group, and Tracers in the Dark, concerning cryptocurrency tracing as a law enforcement investigative technique.
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Wu Dawei
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- diplomat
- Biography
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Wu Dawei was the previous special representative for Korean Peninsula Affairs and former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China.
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Kong Quan
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Kong Quan is a Chinese diplomat and politician who served as Chinese Ambassador to France and Monaco from 2008 to 2013.
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Yu-chien Kuan
- Occupations
- university teacherwritertranslatorautobiographer
- Biography
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Yu-chien Kuan or Guan Yuqian was a Chinese-born German sinologist, writer and translator. The son of a high-ranking Chinese Communist Party official, he was denounced as a "rightist" and persecuted during the Anti-Rightist Campaign and the Cultural Revolution. This drove him to escape from China using a Japanese passport stolen from his workplace. He landed in Egypt and spent a year and half in prison for illegal entry, before being admitted to West Germany in 1969 as a political refugee.
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Li Baodong
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Li Baodong is a Chinese diplomat who served as the Permanent Representative of the People's Republic of China to the United Nations from 2010 to 2013. He was later succeeded by Liu Jieyi.
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Wu Hongbo
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Wu Hongbo is a Chinese diplomat who served as the special representative of the Chinese government for European affairs from November 2019 to February 2025.
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Lin Jian
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Lin Jian is a Chinese diplomat who has been serving as the 34th spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China and deputy director-general of the Department of Press, Communication, and Public Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China since March 2024. Lin has been working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1999 to 2020 and was dispatched to serve as party secretary and director of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps from 2020 to 2024.
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Liu Haixing
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Liu Haixing is a Chinese diplomat and politician, currently serving as executive deputy director of the Office of the Central National Security Commission (ministerial-level).
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Jiang Enzhu
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Jiang Enzhu is a Chinese retired diplomat and politician. Jiang was a member of the 15th CPC Central Committee, he served as Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom, as president of the Xinhua News Agency, as director of the Hong Kong Liaison Office.
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Shi Mingde
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Shi Mingde is a Chinese diplomat who served as Chinese Ambassadors to Austria from 2010 to 2012 and Chinese Ambassadors to Germany from 2012 to 2019.
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Colin Mackerras
- Occupations
- sinologist
- Biography
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Colin Patrick Mackerras AO FAHA is an Australian sinologist, Emeritus Professor at Griffith University, and specialist in Chinese culture. He has published on Chinese drama, national minorities of China, Australian-Chinese relations and images of China in the West.
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Sun Yuxi
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Sun Yuxi was a Chinese diplomat. He was born in Harbin, Heilongjiang. He was a graduate of Beijing Foreign Studies University and the London School of Economics. He was Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Afghanistan (2002–2005), India (2005–2007), Italy (2008–2010) and Poland (2010–2012). He was spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China and deputy director of its information department.
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Mei Xu
- Born in
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China - Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Mei Xu is a Chinese-American businesswoman who founded Pacific Trade International and its subsidiary, Chesapeake Bay Candle. Xu stepped down in November 2018 as CEO of Chesapeake Bay Candle. She is the CEO of Mei Xu & Co. LLC and its online platform, YesSheMay.com, a community and marketplace for women entrepreneurs.
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He Yafei
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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He Yafei is a Chinese diplomat who was vice-minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2008 to 2009.
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Zhang Deguang
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Zhang Deguang was Executive Secretary of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation from 2004 to 2006.
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Fan Xianrong
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Fan Xianrong is a Chinese diplomat who served as the Chinese Ambassador to Ukraine from March 2020 to November 2024. He served as Chinese Ambassador to Tajikistan from 2010 to 2015.
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Zhu Bangzao
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 73)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Zhu Bangzao is a retired Chinese diplomat who served as Ambassador: to Tunisia and the State of Palestine (2002–03), Switzerland (2004–08), and Andorra and Spain (2009–14).
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Yang Fenglan
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Yang Fenglan is a Chinese businesswoman who has been convicted of smuggling ivory. She was formerly based in Tanzania and is nicknamed by the media as the "Ivory Queen".
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Luo Linquan
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 69)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Luo Linquan is the current Consul General of the People's Republic of China in San Francisco USA. He entered this position in December 2014. Previously, Luo served as the People's Republic of China Ambassador to Ireland from 2011 to 2013 and People's Republic of China Ambassador to Greece from 2007 to 2011. Prior to his two ambassadorships, he worked in the Protocol Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, at the Ministry's Hong Kong office, and in China's Consulate-General in New York City. Luo is married with one son.
