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Bincheng Mao

Election Year: 2025

Election Constituency: China

Scholar Status: Scholar in Residence

Rhodes Identifier: China & Exeter 2025

Bincheng Mao

Biography

Bincheng Mao serves as an economic and policy advisor to a former governor of the central bank of an OECD member country. Previously, during the COVID-19 crisis, he led nonprofit initiatives to improve healthcare access for linguistic minorities on the US East Coast. He was named to Forbes’ 2022 list of the “100 Outstanding Chinese” honorees. In response to a surge in anti-Asian hate crimes, he launched a nonprofit speaker series featuring senior policymakers, including former prime ministers of Australia and Canada and a former US secretary of state. During the 76th session of the UN General Assembly, he supported a former European head of state in his engagements with the United Nations. He also interned at the United Nations, where he worked on initiatives promoting equal access to STEM education for women and girls. In his free time, he enjoys basketball and learning to play the guitar—to the occasional dismay of his neighbors.