30 Notable alumni of
Beijing Foreign Studies University
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Beijing Foreign Studies University is 1331st in the world, 290th in Asia, and 27th in China by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 30 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
- television actorfilm directorschool teacheractorpresenter
- 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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- paintertranslatorwriterfilm directorliterary critic
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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
- journalisteditorreporter
- 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 proprietorentrepreneurbusinesspersoninternational forum participantpresenter
- 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
- politiciandiplomat
- 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.
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Fu Ying
- Occupations
- interpretertranslatorpoliticiandiplomat
- 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. She currently serves as the chairperson of the National People's Congress Foreign Affairs Committee.
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Jin Liqun
- Occupations
- bankerpoliticianinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Jin Liqun is a Chinese politician, banker, and professor. He is currently the president of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). He was formerly the chairman of China International Capital Corporation, the Vice President of the Asian Development Bank, and the Vice Minister of Finance of the People's Republic of China.
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Liu Jieyi
- Occupations
- translatordiplomat
- 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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Zhang Yesui
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Zhang Yesui is a Chinese diplomat who served as the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and 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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Liu Jianchao
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- 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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Victor Gao
- Enrolled in Beijing Foreign Studies University
- Studied in 1981-1983
- Occupations
- lawyerinterpreterinternational relations scholarpundit
- Biography
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Gao Zhikai is a Chinese lawyer and academic. He is the Vice President of the Beijing based Center for China and Globalization (CCG), and Chair Professor of Soochow University, and a member of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang. He was formerly a translator for the CCP leader Deng Xiaoping.
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Wu Jianmin
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- 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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Song Jian
- Occupations
- aerospace engineercyberneticist
- 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 Dawei
- Occupations
- 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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Andy Greenberg
- Years
- 20th Century
- Enrolled in Beijing Foreign Studies University
- Studied in 2002-2002
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
- 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 as well as Sandworm, concerning the eponymous hacking group.
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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
- autobiographertranslatorwriteruniversity teacher
- 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
- international forum participantdiplomat
- 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
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Wu Hongbo is a Chinese diplomat. Until July 2017 he was the Under-Secretary-General in the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. He replaced Sha Zukang as the head of DESA.
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Jiang Enzhu
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- 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 Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
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Liu Haixing
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- 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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Shi Mingde
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- 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
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- sinologist
- Biography
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Colin Patrick Mackerras 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 69)
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- 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
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Zhang Deguang was Executive Secretary of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation from 2004 to 2006.
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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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Zhu Bangzao
- Years
- 1952-.. (age 72)
- 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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Luo Linquan
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- 1956-.. (age 68)
- 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.
