Professor HAO Ping, served as the Vice President of Peking University from 2001 to 2005; as the President of Beijing Foreign Studies University during 2005 to 2009. He was the Vice Minister of Education from 2009 to 2016, during which he was the President of the 37th session of the General Conference, UNESCO from 2013 to 2015. Between 2016 and 2018, he served as the Chair of the University Council of Peking University. Since 2018, he has been the President of Peking University.