Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management (Tsinghua SEM) has recently announced the Advisory Board member list for academic year 2017-2018. The Advisory Board includes three new members and one member taking over from his predecessor. The three new members are Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies, Harald Krüger, Chairman of the Board of Management, BMW AG, and Masayoshi Son, Chairman & CEO, SoftBank Group Corp. Ratan N. Tata, Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons, Tata Industries, Tata Motors, Tata Steel and Tata Chemicals, replaced his predecessor to become a Board member.

 

Michael Dell is Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies. He founded Dell in 1984 and took it private in 2013, setting the stage to architect the largest technology deal in history with the combination of Dell, EMC and VMware in 2016. With revenues of $74B and 138,000 team members, Dell Technologies is one of the world’s largest IT companies serving the needs of global corporations and governments to small businesses and consumers. Michael Dell was on the World's Most Powerful People List 2016 of Forbes, and on the Most Powerful CEOs List 2017 of CRN magazine.

 

Tsinghua SEM Advisory Board Member Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies

Harald Krüger joined BMW AG in 1992, and he became Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG since 2008. He took charge of a variety of assignments within BMW AG involving human resources, MINI, Motorrad, Rolls-Royce, aftersales, production, etc. As of 2015, Mr. Krüger has become Chairman of the Board of Management, BMW AG, officially. BMW Group is the world’s leading premium manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles and also provides premium financial and mobility services. As a global company, the BMW Group operates 31 production and assembly facilities in 14 countries and has a global sales network in more than 140 countries.

 

Tsinghua SEM Advisory Board Member Harald Krüger, Chairman of the Board of Management, BMW AG

 

Masayoshi Son founded  SoftBank Corp. Japan in 1981, and now acts as Chairman & CEO of SoftBank Group Corp. SoftBank Group is an integrated venture capital firm focusing on IT industry, and has invested in more than 600 companies worldwide, covering network and telecommunication sectors. The most representative investments by Masayoshi Son were Yahoo and Alibaba. He also invested into a variety of Chinese enterprises including UTStarcom, Sina, Netease, Ctrip, Focus Media, Dangdang, Shanda Group, etc. Masayoshi Son was named the world's 45th most powerful person by Forbes Magazine's List of The World's Most Powerful People in 2013.

 

Tsinghua SEM Advisory Board Member Masayoshi Son, Chairman & CEO, SoftBank Group Corp.

 

Ratan N. Tata is Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons, Tata Industries, Tata Motors, Tata Steel, and Tata Chemicals. The Tata Group is the largest group company in India, with business presence all over the world and operations involving such sectors as communications and information technology, engineering, material, service, energy, consumer products, chemical products, etc. As the fourth-generation leader of the Group, Ratan N. Tata had been appointed Chairman of the Group since 1991, in charge of a variety of reforms and innovations by breaking the family management style and advocating diversification and internationalization for the Group and transforming the Tata Group into a genuine, globalized business giant.

 

Tsinghua SEM Advisory Board Member Ratan N. Tata, Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons, Tata Industries, Tata Motors, Tata Steel and Tata Chemicals

 

The Tsinghua SEM Advisory Board was established in October 2000, consisting of leading business executives, business school deans, renowned scholars including Nobel laureates in Economics, and Chinese government officials for economic and financial affairs. ZHU Rongji, the founding dean of Tsinghua SEM, is the Honorary Chairman. The Advisory Board aims to strengthen the external relations of the School, improve its overall accomplishments in education and research, and help to build it into a world-class school of economics and management.

The Advisory Board of Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management (2017-2018)

Honorary Chairman

ZHU Rongji

Founding Dean, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University (1984-2001)

Premier, State Council, People’s Republic of China (1998-2003)

Honorary Members

Lord Browne of Madingley

Executive Chairman, L1 Energy (UK) LLP

Chairman, Huawei Technologies (UK) Ltd.

Former Group Chief Executive, BP PLC

Henry M. Paulson, Jr.

Chairman, Paulson Institute

Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury

Former Chairman and CEO, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

H. Lee Scott, Jr.

Chairman, Business Advisory Board for BDT Capital

Former President and CEO, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

WANG Qishan

Member, Standing Committee of Political Bureau of the 18th CPC Central Committee

Former Secretary, CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection

Chairman

Jim Breyer

Founder and CEO, Breyer Capital

Vice Chairman

QIU Yong

President, Tsinghua University

Members

Mary T. Barra 

Chairman and CEO, General Motors Company

Dominic Barton

Global Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company

Lloyd C. Blankfein

Chairman and CEO, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

Carlos Brito

CEO, Anheuser-Busch InBev

CHANG Zhenming

Chairman, CITIC Group

CHEN Jining 

Acting Mayor, Beijing Municipal Government

Former Minister, Ministry of Environmental Protection, People’s Republic of China 

Former President, Tsinghua University

CHEN Yuan

Vice Chairperson, The 12th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)

Former Chairman, China Development Bank

Tim Cook

CEO, Apple

Michael L. Corbat

CEO, Citigroup Inc.

Michael Dell

Chairman and CEO, Dell Technologies

Jamie Dimon

Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Robert Dudley

Group Chief Executive, BP PLC

Denis Duverne

Non-Executive Chairman, AXA

William E. Ford

CEO, General Atlantic LLC

Victor K. Fung

Group Chairman, Fung Group

Honorary Chairman, Li & Fung Limited

Christopher B. Galvin

Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder, Harrison Street Capital LLC 

Former Chairman and CEO, Motorola Inc.

Geoffrey Garrett

Dean, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania 

Reliance Professor of Management and Private Enterprise, Professor of Political Science

Carlos Ghosn

Chairman and CEO,  Renault- Nissan- Mitsubishi

Terry Gou

Founder and CEO, Foxconn Technology Group

Mario Greco

CEO, Zurich Insurance Group

Maurice R. Greenberg

Chairman, Starr Companies

Former Chairman and CEO, AIG

GU Binglin

Director, Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University

Former President, Tsinghua University

GUO Shuqing

Chairman, China Banking Regulatory Commission

Former Governor, Shandong Province

HO Ching

CEO, Temasek Holdings Private Limited 

Nobuyuki Idei

Founder and CEO, Quantum Leaps Corporation

Former Chairman and Group CEO, Sony Corporation

Irwin Mark Jacobs

Founding Chairman and CEO Emeritus, Qualcomm

Muhtar Kent

Chairman, The Coca-Cola Company

Henry R. Kravis

Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer, KKR

Harald Krüger

Chairman of the Board of Management, BMW AG

Jonathan D. Levin

Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Richard C. Levin

Former CEO, Coursera

Former President, Yale University

Richard Li

Chairman and Chief Executive, Pacific Century Group

Robin Li

Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Baidu, Inc.

LI Rongrong

Former Chairman, State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission

LIU Chuanzhi

Chairman, Legend Holdings Corporation

Founder, Lenovo Group Limited

LIU He

Member, Political Bureau of CPC Central Committee

Minister, Office of the Central Leading Group on Financial and Economic Affairs

LIU Mingkang

Former Chairman, China Banking Regulatory Commission

LIU Shiyu

Chairman, China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC)

Secretary, The CPC Committee of CSRC

LOU Jiwei

Chairman, National Council for Social Security Fund

Former Minister, Ministry of Finance, People’s Republic of China

Andrónico Luksic

Chairman, Luksic Group

Jack Ma

Executive Chairman, Alibaba Group

MA Kai

Member, Political Bureau of the 18th CPC Central Committee

Vice Premier, State Council, People’s Republic of China

Pony Ma

Core Founder, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Tencent

Eric S. Maskin

Adams University Professor, Harvard University

2007 Nobel Laureate in Economics

Doug McMillon

President and CEO, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Mike McNamara

CEO, Flex

Elon Musk

CEO, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) 

CEO, Tesla, Inc.

Satya Nadella

CEO, Microsoft

Nitin Nohria

Dean, Harvard Business School

Indra K. Nooyi

Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo

Brian L. Roberts

Chairman and CEO, Comcast NBCUniversal

Ginni Rometty

Chairman, President and CEO, IBM

David M. Rubenstein

Co-Founder and Co-CEO, The Carlyle Group

David C. Schmittlein

John C Head III Dean, MIT Sloan School of Management

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder, Blackstone

Risto K. Siilasmaa

Chairman, Nokia Corporation

Chairman and Founder, F-Secure Corporation

Masayoshi Son

Chairman & CEO, SoftBank Group Corp. 

A. Michael Spence

Professor, Stern School of Business, New York University

2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics

Ratan N. Tata

Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons, Tata Industries, Tata Motors, Tata Steel and Tata Chemicals

John L. Thornton

Chairman, Barrick Gold Corporation 

Chairman, Board of Trustees, Brookings Institution

Ben van Beurden

Chief Executive Officer, Royal Dutch Shell plc

Jacob Wallenberg

Chairman, Investor AB

Deputy Chairman of ABB, Ericsson and SAS

WANG Dazhong

Former President, Tsinghua University

Marjorie Yang

Chairman, Esquel Group

ZHAO Chunjun

Former Dean, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University

ZHOU Xiaochuan

Vice Chairperson, The 12th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)

Governor, People’s Bank of China

Mark Zuckerberg

Founder and CEO, Facebook