By Li Han
Staff Writer of the Tsinghua News Center
Since its launching on September 13, the Tsinghua Global Vision Lectures series, which has been incorporated into Tsinghua’s elective course system, has received a warm welcome from students. In the past week, several famous university and company leaders delivered speeches in the series, including Professor Jeffery Lehman, Former President of Cornell University, Professor M.M. Salunkhe, Vice-Chancellor of Shivaji University in India, Mr. Maurice Greenberg, Former Chairman and CEO of American International Group (AIG), Mr. Ronnie Chan, Chairman of the Hang Lung Group, and Mr. Joseph M. Tucci, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of EMC Corporation.
(Professor Jeffery Lehman, Former President of Cornell University)
(Professor M.M. Salunkhe, Vice-Chancellor of Shivaji University in India)
(Mr. Maurice Greenberg, Former Chairman and CEO of American International Group )
(Mr. Ronnie Chan, Chairman of the Hang Lung Group)
(Mr. Joseph M. Tucci, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of EMC Corporation.)
The Tsinghua Global Vision Lectures includes two parts—the Global Leadership series and the Advanced Studies series. The Global Leadership series features such speakers as foreign state and international organization leaders, board chairmen, CEOs of international companies, overseas university presidents, and world-famous scholars. They will address topics mainly in the humanities and social sciences. The Advanced Studies series will invite renowned academic prize winners including Nobel Prize winners, Fields Medal winners, Turing Award winners, and renowned scholars to speak on cross-disciplinary knowledge, frontiers studies, and recent research in related fields.
(Photo by Zhang Jian and Guo Haijun)
