On September 29, it was announced that the 2026 meeting of the Advisory Board of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University will be held in Beijing on October 13 and 14. This marks the 27th annual meeting since the board was established.

According to officially released information, this year the advisory board has added 3 new members and 5 new successor members.

The 3 new members are NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) founder and CEO Jensen Huang, Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) Board Chair and CEO Lisa Su, and Pictet Group Senior Managing Partner Marc Pictet.

The 5 new successor members are BMW Group Chairman Milan Nedeljković, Walmart President and CEO John Furner, Coca-Cola CEO Henrique Braun, General Atlantic Co-President and Global Head of Growth Equity Martín Escobari, and bp Group CEO Meg O'Neill.

The predecessors at the companies of these 5 successor members were all formerly members of the school's advisory board and stepped down due to job changes.