By Li Han

Staff Writer of the Tsinghua News Center

The Ministry of Education has appointed Professor Deng Wei as Vice Chairperson of the Tsinghua University Council.

Professor Deng Wei was born in 1966. He graduated from Tsinghua with a bachelor's degree in architecture in 1989 and then became a faculty member at Tsinghua. He got his master's degree from Tsinghua's School of Economics and Management in 1994. He served as director of the Tsinghua University News Center from 2003 until 2008. Prior to his appointment as University Council Vice Chairperson, he was Council Chairman of Tsinghua's School of Marxism. He is a National Urban Planning Programmer and currently a council member of the China Society of Urban Economy, the China Real Estate and Housing Research Association, and the Beijing Society for Urban Studies. Professor Deng is also a member of the Regional Planning and Urban Economic Academic Committee of the Urban Planning Society of China.