Gloria Rong

Dr. Gloria Rong is a leading advocate for interdisciplinary legal and business education between China and the U.S. She is among the very few Chinese women to have completed advanced degrees in law, policy, and business simultaneously at Harvard—at the Harvard Law School, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and the Harvard Business School. While at Harvard, Dr. Rong founded and led the Harvard China Review, the university’s most influential Chinese academic platform. She was highly regarded by Drew Faust, Harvard’s first female president, and under Faust’s personal authorization translated and published the Chinese edition of Mothers of Invention, which received endorsements from leaders and scholars of Tsinghua University, Peking University, and many other major institutions. Dr. Rong has taught at Tsinghua University, Peking University, the University of Michigan, and Harvard University, and has been a pioneer in Sino–U.S. legal and policy exchange. She has served as Special Advisor to the President of Cornell University, Special Assistant to the President of the University of Wisconsin System, and Founding Executive Vice Dean of Peking University School of Transnational Law. Co-founding the BIBS, Dr. Rong integrates her cross-cultural and interdisciplinary experience to build a next-generation business school for the AI era, located between Harvard and MIT at the heart of Boston’s academic and innovation ecosystem.