NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Joins Tsinghua Advisory Board

Recently, according to the Financial Times, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang has accepted an invitation to join the Advisory Board of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University (Tsinghua SEM Advisory Board). It is also reported that during recent China visits by U.S. President Donald Trump, Huang was among the accompanying delegation members.

The Tsinghua SEM Advisory Board was established in October 2000 under the active promotion of then-Dean of Tsinghua SEM and former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji. The current honorary chairman is Wang Qishan, while the chairman is Tim Cook, CEO of Apple. The board currently consists of 67 members, including 65 advisors. Among the overseas members are 49 internationally renowned business leaders, two presidents of top global universities, four deans of prominent overseas business schools, and two Nobel laureates in economics. Members include leading figures in the American technology industry such as Elon Musk of Tesla, Michael Dell of Dell Technologies, Satya Nadella of Microsoft, and Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, as well as prominent figures in the financial sector such as Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase and Larry Fink of BlackRock.

Tsinghua University is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious universities in China. Through teaching, research, and innovation, Tsinghua is committed to advancing the well-being of both China and the wider world. As one of China’s most influential institutions of higher education, Tsinghua aims to cultivate global citizens who can thrive in today’s world and become the leaders of tomorrow. By pursuing excellence in education and research, the university seeks to develop innovative solutions to some of the most pressing challenges facing China and the international community.

Jensen Huang

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Jensen Huang (born February 17, 1963) is a business executive and electrical engineer who is the founder, president, and CEO of Nvidia, the world's most valuable company. Huang holds a BSEE degree from Oregon State University and an MSEE degree from Stanford University. As of 2026, Forbes estimates his net worth at over US$200 billion, making him the seventh-wealthiest individual in the world.

Huang launched Nvidia in 1993 from a Denny's restaurant in San Jose, California, at age 30 and has remained its president and CEO ever since. He led the company out of near-bankruptcy during the 1990s and oversaw its expansion into GPU production, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence (AI).

Under Huang, Nvidia experienced rapid growth during the AI boom, becoming the first company to reach a market capitalization of over $5 trillion in October 2025. In 2017, he was named Fortune’s Businessperson of the Year. In 2019, Harvard Business Review ranked him No. 1 on its list of the world’s 100 best-performing CEOs over the lifetime of their tenure. In 2021 and 2024, Time magazine included Huang in their list of the most influential people. In 2025, he was named as one of the "Architects of AI" for Time's Person of the Year.