Fangzhou Jiang

BS/BComm, Australian National University; MS, Stanford University; Master of Global Affairs, Schwarzman Scholar, Tsinghua University; MPA, Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Fellow; MBA, Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Fangzhou is a co-founder of Crimson Education and serves as the group’s Chief Product Officer as well as the CEO of China Operations. Fangzhou also sits on Crimson’s board of directors.

Born in Shaanxi, China, Fangzhou moved to New Zealand at the age of 16 and attended Rangitoto College. In his final year of high school, he became the first and only international student in the history of New Zealand to be named a Premier Scholar, the highest academic honor in the country from Prime Minister Sir John Key. In addition to the NZ high school curriculum, he self-studied seven AP subjects and received perfect scores on all of them. He was awarded the AP Scholar of Distinction by the College Board.

Fangzhou then went on to attend the Australian National University as the International University Scholar, and graduated with a BSc in Computer Science and a BComm in Accounting. He then moved to the United States for his Masters and studied Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University. Fangzhou’s educational journey continued when, in 2019, he was selected as a Schwarzman Scholar to pursue a Master of Global Affairs at Tsinghua University, before obtaining his Master of Public Administration at Harvard Kennedy School and his Master of Business Administration at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

In 2017, he was named New Zealand Student Entrepreneur of the Year and in 2021, he was recognized on China’s Hurun Under 30s list. In 2022, he was recognised in Forbes 30 Under 30. Fangzhou has served as an entrepreneurship coach and industry advisor at the MIT Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship.

Over the last eleven years at Crimson, Fangzhou has advised hundreds of students around the world to help them access their dream universities and careers.