Tracy Liu, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Geneva, Switzerland

My role as a Senior Executive Assistant provided crucially support to the daily operation of the institution. As a member of the Operations Office, I bridged three key departments (Council, Executive Leadership Team, and Advisory Committee) and the Administrative Team. I had been closely working with the Founder, the CEO, and the Advisory Chair to manage the daily schedule and calendar of senior executives, coordinate meetings and appointments, prepare documents and presentations, draft and distribute correspondence (emails and reports), plan, schedule, and monitor four projects in the field of education in creativity, interfaith harmony, sustainability, and individuals with special care, as well as deliver strategic plans to Administrative colleagues based in different cities across the globe.

London

During my time as a Project Coordinator, I was responsible for supporting the management of projects by ensuring that they were completed on time and met the requirements. I supported the Global Institute of Creative Thinking with several projects including two regional creativity conferences based in the US (Oregon) and in the UK (Cambridge), one annual conference based in France (Paris), and one International Creativity Award. My role focussed on a variety of tasks, including the supporting of the development of project plans and timelines, the coordinating and monitoring of project activities, the updating and maintenance of project-related materials, the facilitating of communication between all project participants, the organising and attending of project meetings including logistics work (such as the preparing of agendas and taking of meeting minutes), and the providing of daily updates to project managers and the founder. Using my expertise in writing and editing, I also assisted in quality control to ensure that all digital and printed documents met the required standards.

Based on my expertise in ethnographic research on East Asian (Chinese) Buddhism, I was invited as a peer reviewer to support editor to review an academic research paper critically during the assessment process.

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

As an invited online lecturer, I supported the Higher Education Plus Programme (Cambridge Admissions Office, Student Service Centre) to design an introductory course on social anthropology and to record the online lectures through the Zoom platform. My audience consisted of Year 12 students based in the UK who have the potential to progress to higher education but are from under-represented areas and backgrounds. Through online lecturing, plus extra-curricular activities and the designing of assignments, my course helped students to develop a basic understanding of how social scientific research can be conducted in general, and focussed on how social anthropologists think and work, thereby stimulating their interests in choosing whether to study in this field or related fields in arts, humanities, and social science.

Beijing, China

I was responsible for supporting senior journalist to brainstorm interview questions and conduct interviews with foreign scholars and experts in China. I also helped to edit interview transcripts and draft column articles.

Phd In Soical Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Pass Without Corrections

Activities and Societies: Member of International Association of Buddhist Studies (IABS) Member of UK Association of Buddhist Studies.

Ma In Buddhist Studies, Religion/Religious Studies, Deans' List

Msc In Social Anthropology, Anthropology, Distinct

Ba In English Language And Literature, English Language And Literature, General, First Class

Activities and Societies: Member of Students' Union (Academic Officer, School of Foreign Language)