NAME

Xuexian Wang

SEX

Male

NATIVE PLACE

Shandong

CURRENT POSITION/FUCTION

Ambassador of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, PRC

China’s Senior Official for Asia-Europe Meeting

Special Envoy for Afghan Affairs

Council Member of United Nations Association, China

RESEARCH FIELD： Human Rights Law, UN Multilateral Diplomacy

MAIN PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

1969-1973 Staff member, Chinese Embassy in the United Kingdom

1974-1980 Third Secretary, Chinese Embassy in Malaysia

1980-1982 Third Secretary, then Deputy Director, Department of International Organizations and Conferences, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1982-1989 Second Secretary, First Secretary and Counselor, Chinese Permanent Mission to the United Nations

1989-1991 Counselor and then Deputy Director General, Department of International Organizations and Conferences, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1991-1994 Chinese Consul General (Ambassador rank) to Los Angeles

1994-1997 Deputy Permanent Representative and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations

1997-2001 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of South Africa

2001 till now China’s Senior Official for Asia-Europe Meeting

02.25.2005 till now    Member of the Committee Against Torture

EDUCATION:

Graduated in 1961 from Beijing Foreign Studies University, majoring in international relations and English.

Attended in an advanced studies from 1965 to 1966 in London Polytechnical School, majoring in English.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1981 Participated in the annual meeting of Asian-African Legal Organization.

1980 Participated in the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea.

1981 Since 1981 participated in the United Nations General Assembly meetings for 16 times.

1991 Participated in the forty-seventh session of the Commission on Human Rights of the United Nations.

1994-1997 Responsible for 3rd and 6th Committees affairs of the United Nations.

2001 Participated in Seminar on Cracking Down Transnational Crime by ASEM Law Enforcement Agencies, Beijing.

2001 Participated in Meeting for Protecting Child Welfare by ASEM Law Enforcement Agencies, Guangzhou. Drafted China’s initial report of the Convention against Torture (CAT) and participated in consideration on the report

PUBLICATIONS

Member of the Editor Board for World Affairs Yearbook (published by World Affairs Press).