Pang Lijuan

Pang was born in 1962, in Ninghai County, Zhejiang, China. Lijuan graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in childhood education in 1982, a master of philosophy from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1987 and a doctorate in psychology in 1991, from the Beijing Normal University.^[1][2]

Pang has worked at Beijing Normal University, University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University. At Beijing Normal University she worked as Vice Director of the University Council, and as a professor. She worked at the Senior Behavior Scientific Research Center at Stanford University and at the Institute of Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley.^[1][2]

Since 2003, Pang served as a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and during her tenure she served on the Education, Science, Culture and Health committee.^[1][2]