Dr. Fengqiao Yan is dean of Graduate School of Education at Peking University, and was principal investigator of several research projects sponsored by World Bank, Ford Foundation, and Chinese government. His major academic areas is organization and institution in higher education, private education and private higher education, academic profession. He authored “Organization and Governance of University” .

Dr. Richard Holman, Dean of Division of Computer Sciences and Business at Minerva, formerly professor of physics at Carnegie Mellon University mainly interests the interface between particle physics and cosmology. One of the brightest spots in Holman’s career has been his interactions with students at all levels.

Huazhang Shen is also a co-founder of the Internet Community Magnetic Field and Carlatin Automotive Aftermarket Project with extensive experience in strategy, marketing, product and technology. He is a graduate of China University of Science and Technology and California Institute of Technology.

Dr. Sen Song is a Principal Investigator at the Department of Biomedical Engineering in Tsinghua University. He was a post-doctoral researcher at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His current work involves computational neuroscience, neural circuits underlying emotions and motivations, and the interface between neuroscience and artificial intelligence.

Ivy Guo introduced and translated the book The ABCs of How We Learn into Chinese. She is the founding member and lead of Learning Experience Design of Tsinghua University Lab for Lifelong Learning. She serves as the Secretary General of the Stanford Club of Beijing.

Dun Xiao was involved in organising the Beijing and London Olympic and Paralympic Games, and was as a Derivatives Trader in UBS. Dun holds Masters of Science in Electrical and Information Engineering from Cambridge University and Masters of Science in Decision Analysis from Minerva Schools at KGI.

Yuanfang Jin is a sophomore student, studying finance, economics, and philosophy at Minerva Schools at KGI. Since 2018, she worked in four different industries, from job hunting to gaming developer, hackathon organizing, and food waste reduction.

Dr. Morgan Ma is a senior professional manager for various MNCs. Morgan holds a Ph.D from the University of Sydney Australia in Chemical Engineering. He has accompanied his son to have visited more then 20 universities around the world and encouraged his son to go Minerva among other acceptances from prestigious US universities.

Shucao Mo is the Regional Manager, East Asia and Oceania for Minerva Schools at KGI. She was public art curriculum coordinator at The Center for Arts Education. She has presented her writing on Rousseauian educational philosophy at Northeastern Political Science Association Conference. She received an Ed.M. in Arts in Education from Harvard University and a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from Duke University.​