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Advisors and Authorities

Our special gratitude goes to... 

John Thornton, Director of Goldman Sachs Foundation, Professor and Director of Global Leadership of Tsinghua University 

In his Global Leadership class in Tsinghua, Professor Thornton repeatedly emphasized the significance for the Chinese youth to become ambassadors of their culture. Such a notion provided the first inspiration for the name of YAPM, Youth Ambassador Program for Minorities. During two separate meetings with Juliet and Albert, Professor Thornton discussed carefully with the two project directors and provided some very practical advice on cross-border cooperation, long-term strategies and several technical details.  He also greatly encouraged the team to carry its efforts on "such an interesting, ambitious and socially useful project".

Tie Fang, Chairman of Center for Studies of Chinese Southwest's Borderland Ethnic Minorities of Yunnan University 

Through a couple of telephone interviews, Dean Fang has contributed to YAPM a good amount of  insightful knowledge regarding a range of meaningful topics, such as the existing situation of minority cultures in China, measures that have been taken. He also shared with YAPM some interesting findings of his research center. His expertise and constructive advice has not only  kept the project on the right track but also accelerated its progresses. Dean Fang has agreed to become the academic advisor of YAPM.

Tudeng Pengcuo, Associate Professor in the Central University of Nationalities

Professor Tudeng Pengcuo was the first scholar that gave advice on YAPM. He introduced to YAPM Tibet's efforts to protect the folk cultures and traditions. Furthermore, his strong sense of responsibility to inherit and develop the brilliant heritages of Tibetan culture also inspired YAPM to strive for its goal.

Sun Lingping

Started working in 1975, move to Ministry of Culture in 1985 and was engaged with culture of minority group for 10 years.

Now as the director of the ethnological culture division of social cultural library department in the Ministry of Culture, Ms. Sun is mainly in charge of the project of national ethnological and folk preservation.

Though fully engaged with her work, Ms. Sun had several telephone calls and face-to-face interviews with YAPM. In position of an officer, she sincerely provided YAPM with current situation and national policy of preserving the culture of the minority group as well as invisible cultural assets, all of which has been the instructional help towards the preliminary work of YAPM.

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