Xue Lan

Professor Xue Lan (薛瀾) is currently a professor at Tsinghua University, teaching and research interests in Public Policy and Management, Science and Technology Policy, Crisis Management and Global Governance. He is the Dean of Schwarzman College and the Dean of Institute for AI International Governance (I-AIIG) of Tsinghua University. He also serves as a director of China Institute for Science and Technology Policy, and a co-director of Global Institute for Sustainable Development Goals at Tsinghua University. He is a co-convener of the Discipline Evaluation Group (Public Administration) of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution, a board member of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Association, and a member of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA).

Prof. Xue is currently an independent non-executive director of SenseTime Group Inc. (商湯集團股份有限公司) (the shares of which are listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited with a stock code of 0020) and an independent non-executive director of Neusoft Corporation (東軟集團股份有限公司) (Shanghai Stock Exchange listed). He is serving as the vice chairman of the board of Chinese Association of Science and Science & Technology Policy (the CASSSP) (中國科學學與科技政策研究會), the chair of the National Expert Committee on New Generation of Artificial Intelligence Governance (國家新一代人工智能治理專業委員會) and a member of the Standing Committee of the China Association for Science and Technology.

Prof. Xue received numerous awards including the Distinguished Young Scholar Award from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) in 2001, Cheung Kong Chair Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education in 2009, the Fudan Distinguished Contribution Award for Management Science in November 2011, the Distinguished Contribution Award from the CASSSP in October 2018, and the Second National Award for Excellence in Innovation in China in May 2020.

Prof. Xue obtained his bachelor's degree in optics and fine mechanics from the Changchun Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (長春光學精密機械學院) (currently known as Changchun University of Science and Technology (長春理工大學)) in January 1982. He obtained a Master of Science degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in December 1987. He further received a Master of Science degree and a Ph.D. degree in engineering and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University in May 1989 and December 1991, respectively.