Professor Hao Ping is an internationally recognized writer and scholar with a successful career in Government and University administration. He is an Alternate Member of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and a Member of the National Committee of the 11th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). Since June 2022, Professor Ping has been appointed the Secretary of the CPC Peking University Committee and the Chair of the University Council. In 1997, he served as the Assistant President of Peking University and later, in 2001, as Vice President of Peking University. In 2005, Professor Hao became the President of Beijing Foreign Studies University. Later in 2009, he was appointed 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. In December 2016, Professor Hao returned to Peking University and served as the Secretary of the CPC Peking University Committee and the Chair of the University Council of Peking University. From October 2018 to June 2022, he served as the President of Peking University. Professor Hao has published several 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).