Cui Tiankai

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Cui Tiankai (2012)

Cui Tiankai ( Chinese  崔天凯 , Pinyin Cuī Tiānkǎi ; born October 1952 in Zhejiang ) is a diplomat of the People's Republic of China who was Ambassador to Japan from 2007 to 2009 and Vice Foreign Minister from 2009 to 2013. He has been ambassador to the USA since 2013 .

Life

Cui Tiankai studied law at the Pedagogical University of East China and worked as a teacher at the Pedagogical University of Shanghai between 1977 and 1978 , where he himself completed postgraduate studies at the Foreign Language Department between 1978 and 1979 . This was followed from 1979 to 1981 a visit to the training course for UN interpreters and translators at the Institute of Foreign Languages in Beijing , at which the 1981 and 1984 working as a translator of the Chinese Language Department in the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management of the United Nations Secretariat joined . On his return he was Attaché and most recently Third Secretary in the Department of International Organizations and Conferences at the Department of State between 1984 and 1986 and completed further postgraduate studies at Johns Hopkins University from 1986 to 1987 .

Cui Tiankai (right) after handing over the letter of accreditation as Ambassador to the USA with US President Barack Obama (April 2013)

Subsequently, between 1987 and 1996, Cui was successively deputy head of unit, head of unit and legal advisor in the Department of International Organizations and Conferences at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, before he was Deputy Director General of the Department of Public Relations and spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 1996 and 1997. This was followed by a position from 1997 to 1999 as Counselor at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York City and from 1999 to 2001 as Deputy Director General of the Department of Political Research at the State Department, of which he was Director General from 2001 to 2003. He was then Director General of the Asia Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2003 to 2006 and Assistant Foreign Minister from 2006 to 2007.

In 2007, Cui succeeded Wang Yi as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Japan and remained in this post until January 2010, when Cheng Yonghua succeeded him there in February 2010. He himself was then Deputy Foreign Minister between 2009 and 2013. Since March 2013 he has been Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the USA, successor to Zhang Yesui .

Cui Tiankai is married and has one daughter.

Web links

  • Biography on the homepage of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Entry in China Vitae

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chinese Ambassadors to Japan on the Foreign Ministry website
  2. ↑ Chinese Ambassadors to the United States of America on the State Department website
personal data
SURNAME Cui Tiankai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 崔天凯 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH October 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Zhejiang