Leo Lind is German-Chinese — a Chinese mother, a German father — reading Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Tsinghua University, with a minor in International Relations. He grew up inside the two cultures most of the world only reads about each other through.
Getting into Tsinghua is hard. Having done it, Leo built Agora — an education company that guides students into Tsinghua, Peking and top universities abroad, runs debate and critical-thinking camps, and brings international students to study in China. It's built on plain terms: one lead mentor per student, transparent pricing, and — pointedly — no invented admit rates or anonymous testimonials.
He is also a public arguer. He debates China-and-the-world questions — AI governance among them — on CGTN's The Global Debate, and he founded the first Chinese–German Academic Forum, bringing the Technical University of Munich and Peking University to one table. At his university he serves as Chief Political Editor.
What connects the admissions desk, the broadcast studio and the forum floor is one belief: that understanding across cultures is a skill — teachable, practisable, and worth building deliberately.
Founder
Agora — education company (admissions · camps · study-in-China), Beijing
Panellist
CGTN 《全球辩论》 The Global Debate
Founder
Chinese–German Academic Forum · TUM × Peking University
Chief Political Editor
Student publication
Reading PPE + IR
Tsinghua University
TEDx licensee · debater · speaking champion ·
TEDx · WSDC Germany · national public speaking
Admissions is a field full of inflated numbers. Agora Scholars is built the other way — real terms, real mentors, no invented success rates.
Not a sentiment. Cross-cultural fluency can be taught, drilled and measured — and that is exactly how Leo treats it, in coaching and on the forum floor.
A debater's rigour, paired with the discipline the studio demands: understand the other side well enough to state it better than they can.