Dr. Maorong Jiang is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations and Director of the Asian World Center at Creighton University.  After his graduate studies at the Beijing Foreign Affairs College, he taught international relations as a regular faculty member at the Military College of International Relations in China.  He remained as active duty PLA officer from 1979 until the year he transferred to the Ministry of Personnel (now called Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security) of the Central Government in Beijing in 1989. Jiang was selected as a young government official by the US State Department to participate in its prestigious International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP) in 1990.  Jiang served as visiting fellow for three years at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, during which Jiang participated in the East West Center’s Asian Pacific Leadership Program.  Since coming to the U.S. for his doctoral studies in 1996, Jiang’s counsel has been sought by several government agencies interested in engagement with both China and North Korea. Jiang was a regular speaker at the Global Reporting Network, at the Honolulu Security Seminars during his years in Hawaii.
Jiang has served the U.S. Strategic Command Deterrence and Assurance Academic Alliance since 2015.  From 2014 to 2016, Jiang served as one of the five supervisors in the US Midwest responsible for the Japan Foundation Outreach Initiative Projects at Creighton, and was selected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan to participate in its “Building a Multi-layered Network of Influential Figures” program in 2016.  Since May 2018, Jiang has been involved with the Strategic Outcomes in the Korean project and the Future of Global Competition and Conflict project that are prepared for the Strategic Multilayer Assessment under the supervision of the Joint Staff and the Department of Defense.  His research on “A Flexible Framework to Achieve Strategic Objectives in US-China Policy” was included in a White Paper on China as part of the Strategic Multilayer Assessment Report in December 2019.
Most recently, in April, 2024, Jiang was appointed by the Governor of the State of Nebraska to be one of the Commissioners for the newly established Nebraska Asian American Affairs Commission.  Since September 2023, Jiang was selected to be the Co-President for the Nebraska World Affairs Council. For over a decade, Jiang serves as a Board member of the Omaha Sister City Association, and a member and Treasurer of the Governing Council of the Hawaii-based Center for Global Nonkilling.