<h6><strong>The Diplomat</strong></h6> <h4><strong>The Spain-China Council Foundation will hold the sixteenth edition of the Future Chinese Leaders program from June 30 to July 4. This year, the program will focus on higher education and will feature six Chinese professionals who will visit Spain to experience the Spanish university ecosystem firsthand.</strong></h4> "In an international context marked by uncertainty and polarization, educational exchanges represent a path to deep understanding between societies," the Spain-China Council Foundation emphasized in a press release. "Investing in mutual knowledge, academic mobility, and building networks of trust among university professionals is a commitment to a shared and more stable future," and this new edition of the Future Chinese Leaders program "reinforces precisely that commitment," it added. The program's agenda includes a series of visits and meetings in several Spanish cities. In Madrid, the agenda will begin with a reception at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and continue with meetings with the Spanish Service for the Internationalization of Education (SEPIE) and IE University, an internationally renowned academic institution. Outside the capital, the group will travel to other cities with strong educational influence. In Castilla y León, they will visit the University of Salamanca, one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Europe, and the University of Valladolid, with extensive experience in international programs. In the Basque Country, the delegation will visit Mondragón University, a benchmark in educational innovation and the cooperative training model. They will also hold a meeting with the University of Zaragoza, renowned for its scientific and technological focus and commitment to internationalization. The final stage of the program will take place in Barcelona, where they will visit the La Caixa Foundation, the CEI International Affairs diplomatic school, and ESADE Business School, one of the leading business schools in Europe. Many of these institutions are members of the Board of Trustees of the Spain-China Council Foundation. The program participants are Yang Lu, associate professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST); Tony Ke, associate professor of Marketing at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School; Zhang Chen, associate professor of Leadership and Organizational Management at the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University, where she has also served as vice dean since 2022; Haylie Wong, associate director of the Global Affairs Office at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University; Kelvin Yu, vice dean of the BiMBA program at the National Development School of Peking University, where he also directs its MBA Center and Career Development Center; and Wang Chong, assistant research fellow and director of student affairs at the Joint Institute of the University of Michigan and Shanghai Jiaotong University.
