Zhou Zuoyu is the Vice President of Beijing Normal University, where he oversees the work of international cooperation, international Chinese learning and continuing education. Zhou Zuoyu provides leadership in the development and realization of a university-wide global strategy to enhance Beijing Normal University’s position in global education, research and impact.
As the Founding Dean of Faculty of Education of Beijing Normal University from 2009 to 2011, he devoted himself to uniting the scattered academic units within the university into a giant Faculty. From 2011 to 2014, he was sent from Beijing Normal University as a vice president at Xinjiang Normal University to pursue excellence in academic affairs.

Zhou specializes in higher education administration, higher education assessment and the research on leadership. He led many research programs funded by National Social Science Fund and won the Second Prize for the Third Excellence Achievement Award in Educational Research of China.

Zhou Zuoyu received his doctoral degree in Education from Beijing Normal University and was a visiting scholar of Boston College and Indiana University Bloomington. In 2008, he went to study at UCLA and Stanford University as a Fulbright scholar.