Mingzhou graduated from the Shanghai International Studies University and worked in the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After he left the Ministry he joined CBBY as Deputy Secretary General. He was elected to the IBBY EC from 2008 to 2012 and was the 2012 Chair of the IBBY-Asahi Reading Promotion Award. He served in IBBY EC again in 2014 and as IBBY Vice-President from 2016-18. He was the organizer of the 30th IBBY World Congress held in Macau, China in 2006. Until 2018 Mingzhou was also the General Manager of the CCPPG (Chinese Children’s Press and Publications Group) International division. He is a board director of China Publishers Association and Executive Vice-President of China Children’s Literature Research Society.Migzhou Zhang was elected President of IBBY 2018-2020.
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