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Please join us for the twenty third annual Lynch Lecture. Madame Yan Junqi welcomed a delegation of S-CAR faculty in June 2010 to discuss her vision of China’s role in peacemaking, disarmament, and post-conflict development and explore collaborations with programs such as S-CAR around the world. We look forward to an opportunity to consider China’s growing influence in developing countries as she presents her ideas to the greater S-CAR community and friends. There will be an opportunity for discussion following her lecture led by members of the delegation.
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S-CAR established the annual Lynch Lecture series to broaden knowledge and bring theory and salient issues of conflict analysis and conflict resolution to the attention of the entire University Community.
Biography of Madame Yan Junqi
YAN, Junqi (严隽琪, pron. YEN, Joon- chee) is a vice chair of the standing committee of the National People’s Congress of China, and the chair of the China Association for Promoting Democracy, one of eight political parties that serve as advisors to the Chinese Communist Party. She also serves as a Vice Chair of the China People’s Association for Peace and Disarmament, which is sponsoring her visit.
Mme. Yan is a high-ranking state leader of China, and a descendant of a former president of the Republic of China. But her early life was not easy. Her father died when she was six, and along with four other siblings, she was raised by her mother in difficult conditions.
However, she showed great talent at a young age. She graduated as an engineer from Shanghai Jiaotong University, and then during the Cultural Revolution, was sent to work in the mining industry in Xuzhou. After ten years, she was able to enroll again at Shanghai Jiaotong, where she obtained her master's degree and then became a faculty member.
Mme. Yan obtained her doctoral degree in Naval Engineering from the Denmark Institute of Technology. Upon returning to China, Yan became a teacher and researcher at Shanghai Jiaotong and served as Dean of the School of Mechanical and Power Engineering.
She became an expert on the Computer Integrated Manufacturing System (CIMS), and virtual manufacturing theory and technology in China. She has published over fifty academic papers, edited and published six books, and won many honors.
Madame Yan is a rare combination of outstanding technical expertise and great dedication to public service. In 2000, she entered government service as a vice mayor of Shanghai, responsible for S&T, education, and women’s and children’s affairs. Soon she took on leadership of the Shanghai committee, and then the national committee of the China Association for Promoting Democracy (CAPD).
In 2008, Mme. Yan was elected Vice Chair of the standing committee of the 11th National People’s Congress. Since 2009, she has also served as Vice Chair of the Chinese People’s Association of Peace and Disarmament, leading their delegations to visit Africa in 2010 and now Canada and the U .S.
Background:
China People’s Association for Peace and Disarmament is a large nationwide non-governmental peace association with 24 influential member organizations. Their focus has been on international peace issues until recently when it also has begun to address domestic social issues. http://www.cpapd.org.cn/web/Column.asp?ColumnId=10
CPAPD recently sponsored an event on NE Asia for the International Day of Peace http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2011-09/21/content_13745084.htm
About the Lynch Lecture
Significant friends of the School and prominent Virginians, Edwin and Helen Lynch made several substantial gifts to George Mason University including a beautiful piece of property on Mason Neck - Point of View - and an endowed Chair in the name of Edwin's parents, Vernon M. and Minnie I. Lynch.
Do you have a question or need more information?
Contact Jacquelyn Bleak at [email protected] or 703-993-1930