Professor Qian Yingyi, Dean of Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management was recently appointed to the EQUIS Awarding Body. The appointment was announced during the last meeting of EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development) Board on June 7 in Brussels.

The EQUIS Awarding Body is composed of highly respected individuals with significant experience of management education. Members of the EQUIS Awarding Body have a three-year mandate, renewable once; meetings take place in Brussels three times per year.The EQUIS Awarding Body evaluates the Peer Review Reports on institutions that are applying for EQUIS accreditation and, based on their recommendations, makes the final decision to confer EQUIS Accreditation upon those management institutions that have demonstrated excellence at an international level.

Tsinghua SEM has achieved AACSB and EQUIS accreditations respectively in 2007 and 2008, two of the most prestigious international accreditations of management education. Currently Tsinghua SEM is the first business school on the Chinese mainland with both AACSB and EQUIS accreditations.

Dean Qian Yingyi also serves on the AACSB Board of directors. He is the board's only member from Asia.