Biography
Bincheng Mao is a Schwarzman Scholar and Bloomberg Fellow at Tsinghua University. He is also on deferral from Harvard Law School's J.D. program. He is keenly focused on improving access to justice for underserved communities in rural areas.
His academic interests lie in the intellectual history of equality and civil rights, ethics in law-making, and the legal frameworks that underpin anti-discrimination law. He graduated from New York University as a Changemaker Fellow, Excellence Scholarship recipient, and Schwarzbach Award recipient.
At the Gates Foundation, Bincheng interned on the Health team and helped draft philanthropic investment analyses, focusing on technologies that could reduce maternal and infant mortality in rural Africa. He has also interned at Club de Madrid during the 76th U.N. General Assembly. During this internship, he helped develop framework documents for international organizations to cooperate on reducing small arms trades in Mali. Bincheng has interviewed a range of world leaders to raise public awareness of minority inclusion and civil rights issues. He has received awards including the Schwarzbach Global Impact Award and the President’s Award for Civic Responsibility. Beyond academics, Bincheng enjoys bringing joy to his audiences through stand-up performances and has been a fencing athlete for sixteen years.
At Oxford, Bincheng hopes to read for a Master of Public Policy, aiming to bridge the gap between policy and its implementation on the ground to improve access to justice for all.