The prestigious Chinese university board that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is reportedly poised to join has become much less Chinese over the past decade, a Semafor analysis showed.
The Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management board serves as a rare forum uniting top global CEOs with Chinese government, academic, and business leaders.
A Financial Times report on Huang’s participation sparked backlash from some China hawks in Washington, but US representatives have been the dominant force on the roughly 75-member board for years, making up 53% of the group in 2025, an increase from 47% in 2016.
The share of Chinese delegates, meanwhile, has fallen over the same period, as a host of government officials departed.
