ZHANG Li, an Associate Professor from the School of Journalism and Communication of Tsinghua University, was awarded the “Jean Monnet Chair Professor”.

Jean Monnet was a French politician and the chief architect of the European Union after World War II – also known as the "Father of Europe". The "Jean Monnet Chair Professor" award is the highest academic recognition of the European Union for scholars that pursue integrated European teaching and research on a global scale.

ZHANG Li is the first "Jean Monnet Chair Professor" in the field of journalism and communication in China, and the only scholar in China who has been awarded the "Jean Monnet Chair Professor" as an associate professor. This is an important symbol of the international academic community's recognition of Chinese scholars, especially journalism and communication scholars that study European integration.

ZHANG Li’s long-term research has centered on international communication, political communication, media and policy, and public relations. She is one of the leading international scholars in the fields of European media and communication and EU-China communication. Currently, she serves as the Deputy Director of the Israel Epstein Center for Global Media and Communication (CGMC) at Tsinghua University. Her research mainly focuses on European communication in the international communication landscape, and she has published numerous high-level research results on the perspective of EU-China media and communication. In total, she has published more than 70 research articles and books with more than 50 articles in English. ZHANG Li is the author of the English book, News Media and EU-China Relations, which was published in 2011 by Palgrave Macmillan, an internationally renowned publisher. It is the first international book to examine EU-China relations from a media perspective and received the attention and praise of many international scholars.

ZHANG Li is a Tenured Associate Professor, PhD advisor, and Director of Institute of Public Relations and Strategic Communication of the School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University.

She received her Bachelor of Arts and master’s in journalism at Beijing Normal University and a Ph.D. in International Communication at the University of Leeds in UK. She was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Nottingham in UK and was a tenured faculty at the University of East Anglia, UK. At the end of 2015, she returned to China to be a faculty at the School of Journalism and Communication of Tsinghua University. She has presided over or participated in about ten leading projects funded by the United Kingdom and European Union. She is currently in charge of projects supported by the National Social Science Fund and the Beijing Social Science Fund. She is also a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. She also has been awarded the Asia Europe Foundation’s Outstanding Young Scholar Award among many other awards.

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