The Executive Education Center was established in 2001 at the auspices of former Chinese Premier ZHU Rongji and the Tsinghua SEM Advisory Board, which is constituted by chairpersons, presidents or CEOs of renowned international and domestic companies, deans of the world-leading business schools, leaders of the Chinese government and financial departments. Thanks to the instrumental networking effort by Mr. Henry Paulson, Advisory Board Member of Tsinghua SEM and former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Tsinghua SEM and Harvard Business School formed partnership in joint development of executive education programs.