Jia Ping, Class of 2008

Executive Director 
Health Governance Initiative 

Jia Ping is Executive Director of Health Governance Initiative, a civic think tank based in Beijing. He is also an adjunct professor at St. Mary’s University School of Law in Texas, a guest professor at Kunming Medical University, and a senior research fellow at Sichuan University Center for Study of Human Rights Law and the Center for Study of Bioethics at Peking Union Medical College. He was previously a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University. From 2014 to 2016, Jia Ping served as a board member of AIDSPAN, an independent watchdog of the Global Fund. He was the China Country Coordinate Mechanism Representative of the Global Fund Against AIDS, TB and Malaria from 2007 to 2009. Jia Ping is currently a board member of the China Bioethics Association and the Academic Expert Committee of China HIV/AIDS & STD Association. A World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, he received his B.A. from East China University of Political Science and Law and his M.A. from Renmin University Law School.