Mr. NING Jie joined the TCS in October 2016. He was a Political Affairs Officer (2016.10-2021.8) and provided support to the trilateral cooperation mechanisms including the Trilateral Summit, Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, Ministerial Meeting on Disaster Management, as well as a series of track 2 exchanges among scholars and researchers of the three countries, such as the Network of Trilateral Cooperation Think-Tanks (NTCT). Since September 2021, he served as Coordinator and Socio-Cultural Affairs Officer to facilitate the trilateral exchanges of education, culture, health, sports, and local governments among the three countries. Mr. NING received a master’s degree in political science from Central China Normal University and a master’s degree in Asian Studies from S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.