| Title | professor |
| Start Date | 2003-00-00 |
| Is Current | yes |
| Executive | yes |
| Notes | Now, at 49, Mr Thornton is about to become the first western businessman since China's 1949 revolution to become a full-time professor at Tsinghua University, the country's leading university and training ground for its ruling elite. Always a thinker and operator ona grand scale, he describes his goal as nothing less than to make a decisive contribution to the evolution of China. |