As the Director of the China Country Office (CCO) at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Zhi-Jie (ZJ) Zheng leads the CCO team to develop and strengthen partnerships across China’s public, private and nonprofit sectors to advance health and development outcomes in China and around the world.

ZJ’s decades-long commitment to global health and development has led him to leadership positions at top research institutions and universities in China and the U.S.

Before joining the foundation, ZJ was K.C. Wong Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Global Health, School of Public Health and Senior Vice Dean of the university-wide Institute for Global Health and Development at Peking University. In these roles, he worked with a wide range of partners to launch high-impact programs and initiatives to promote cross-disciplinary global collaborations and cultivate next generation leaders in global health and development.

He previously served as Dean of the School of Public Health at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, as Supervisory Medical Officer and Senior Program Director at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, U.S. National Institutes of Health, and as Lead Epidemiologist and Section Chief of the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention at U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.