Jing Qian is Vice President at the Asia Society and Managing Director of its Center for China Analysis (CCA), which he co-founded with Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister of Australia. As the Managing Director of CCA, Qian leads its strategy, research, and policy work on China, which includes coordination of a series of Track 1.5/2 dialogues. Jing also co-leads the Decoding Chinese Politics and Cure4Cancer International Clinical Trials Collaboration projects.
Qian serves as an Advisory Board Member of the Bloomberg New Economy Forum and is a founding member of both the Bloomberg New Economy International Cancer Coalition and the AstraZeneca Global Health Equity Advisory Board. Qian is also a Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.
Qian’s own research is focused on China's elite politics and its impact on China's domestic and foreign policy, particularly regarding U.S.-China relations. His analyses have appeared in Bloomberg, CBC, The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Nature, Nature Medicine, and others.
A graduate of Harvard, Qian is deeply interested in the liberal arts. He co-founded Project Agora, with H.E. George Papandreou, aiming to educate the citizens and citizen-leaders for our society through the transformative power of a liberal arts education.
