Steven Guanpeng Dong

Steven Guanpeng Dong is director of the Global Journalism Institute (GJI) at Tsinghua University in Beijing. At the GJI, he has worked with Reuters, Xinhua and China Central Television together to host over 20 international workshops and conferences in promoting the professional journalism standard in China. He also holds professorships of political communications at the National School of Administration and the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Academy of Socialism. Since 2001, he has been invited by the State Council Offices over the years to lecture to more than 20,000 senior Chinese officials on transparent governance and crisis communications. He participated in proposing the State Council’s Transparent Governance Act and it was announced in May 2008 just before the Olympic Games. Dr. Dong was a news presenter of political and current affairs programs on China Central Television (CCTV). As a journalist, he interviewed top leaders of many countries, transnational firms and policy institutes. A graduate of Peking, Cambridge and Durham Universities, Dr. Dong has authored and edited several books, including Transparent Governance: Theory and Practice, Reputation Management in a Mediated World, and Encyclopedia of Spokespersons. While at the Center, Dr. Dong focused on political communications in China related to the Beijing Olympics, natural disasters and social crises in 2008.