Tuesday, October 12th, 2004

TDLC Welcomes New Senior Distance Learning Specialist

Jiping Zhang joins the TDLC from the World Bank Institute

The Tokyo Development Learning Center is delighted to welcome Jiping Zhang to the team as our Senior Distance Learning Specialist. Jiping has over 15 years' experience in various World Bank and UNDP training programs in China, and has developed and taught courses on a range of development issues including technology transformation, case writing, capacity building for the poverty reduction sector, and workshops on Chinese economic reform.

Since 1999 Jiping has been working at the World Bank Institute designing and organizing delivery of various distance learning courses to countries in Latin America, Africa, and China using interactive videoconferencing and distance learning methodologies.

She has worked in Beijing as the manager of the Global Development Learning Network's China Distance Learning Center, and was a key member of the GDLN expansion team to establish and build capacity of the Ningxia and Guizhou DLCs.

Jiping has been Visiting Scholar at the Richard Ivey School of Business, taught in the School of Economics and Business Management at Tsinghua University, and worked as senior operational officer at the China Investment Bank.

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