Director & Anchor for China Central Television (CCTV)

Rui Chenggang is a director and anchor of China Central Television, the national TV network of China. In addition to producing and anchoring the daily primetime news shows for CCTV’s business and international channels, Chenggang, as CCTV’s only bilingual business anchor and talk show host, also conducts face-to-face interviews with the world’s top politicians, business leaders and economists. Since 1999, he has interviewed over 300 worldwide chairpersons and CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 30 heads of states. Among his recent interviewees are Bill Clinton, former President of the United States; John Snow, US Treasury Secretary; George Soros, financier; Mikhael Saakashvili, the President of Georgia; Olusegan Obasanjo, President of Nigeria; Mohammed El Baradei, Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency; Jack Welch, Former Chairman & CEO of General Electric; Michael Dell, Chairman of Dell Computer; Bill Ford, CEO of Ford Motors; Meg Whitman, President of Ebay; and the new CEO of Intel, Paul Otellini.

Chenggang was one of the co-founders of China’s first international TV channel, CCTV-9, and remains the channel’s most popular and respected anchorperson. In 2003, he also co-founded and started anchoring the news flagship of CCTV’s Business Channel, Newslist.

From 2000 to 2003, Chenggang was also a columnist for the Beijing Youth Daily, the most widely read newspaper in Beijing.

In 2001, Chenggang became the youngest visiting fellow at the Institute of Technology & Economy at the DevelopmentResearchCenter of the State Council of China. Also in 2001, he was awarded Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum at the annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

In 2002, he was selected as one of the 24 founding fellows of the US China Young Leaders Forum, organized by the National Committee on US-China Relations. Also in the same year, he became a founding fellow of China-Europe Young Leaders Forum, hosted by the BMW Herbert Quandt Foundation. Chenggang is also a founding member of the New Asian Leaders Forum.

From 2002 to 2003, Rui Chenggang served as the Deputy Secretary General of the Organizing Committee of the World Economic Development Declaration Initiatives of China, the first major international business summit held in China after the SARS attack.

In 2004, at the invitation of Queen Rania of Jordan and Klaus Schwab, Founder of the World Economic Forum, Chenggang has become the only Chinese and the youngest member of the Nomination Committee of the Forum for Young Global Leaders, the most prestigious young leaders community of the world.

In light of the increasing tension between China and Japan, Chenggang just founded the China-Japan New Leaders Friendship Forum in Tokyo, 2005. The Forum is to promote understanding and to resolve misconceptions between China and Japan.

Chenggang sat on the board of the China National Symphony Orchestra from 2001 to 2003. He was also a director of China Philharmonic, supervising business development from 2003 to 2004.

He is a visiting professor at the the School of TV & Journalism of China Central Academy of Drama. He is also a veteran speaker and moderator of important domestic and international business summits.

Chenggang is currently a 2005 Yale World Fellow.