Ma Huaide

Ma Huaide (Chinese: 马怀德; born October 1965) is a Chinese legal scholar and academic administrator who currently serves as President and Deputy Party Secretary of Renmin University of China.^[1][2]

Ma was born in Xunhua County, Qinghai Province, in October 1965. He studied law at Peking University, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in 1988. He later completed his master’s degree in constitutional and administrative law at the China University of Political Science and Law in 1990, followed by a doctorate in procedural law in 1993.^[3][4]

After earning his doctorate, Ma joined the Institute of Legal System at the China University of Political Science and Law as a lecturer. He was later promoted to associate professor and deputy director of the institute, and subsequently to full professor. In 2001, he became deputy director of the university’s Center for Procedural Law Studies, and in 2002 he was appointed Dean of the School of Law. He later served as Vice President of the university beginning in 2006.^[5][6]

Throughout his career, Ma has held concurrent roles in academic and governmental advisory bodies.^[7] Beginning in 2006, he became a standing council member of the China Association of Supervision and advisor to the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Housing and Urban–Rural Development, and the Fujian Provincial People's Government. He also served as an expert advisor to the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau and a consultant on Beijing’s law-based governance initiatives. In the same year, he became editor-in-chief of Administrative Law Review.^[8]

In 2012, Ma was elected President of the Administrative Law Research Association of the China Law Society and later became Vice President of the China Law Society in 2021. He was appointed President and Deputy Party Secretary of the China University of Political Science and Law in May 2019.^[9] In March 2023, he became a member of the Committee of Education, Science, Health and Sports of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. In November 2025, he assumed office as President and Deputy Party Secretary of Renmin University of China.^[1][10]

Ma has participated directly in drafting several major laws, including the State Compensation Law, the Administrative Penalty Law, the Legislation Law, the Administrative Licensing Law, and the Administrative Coercion Law. He has delivered lectures to the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party on administrative reform and legal systems in 2005,^[9][11] lectured the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress on China’s administrative legal system, and has frequently provided lectures on law-based administration for ministries and local governments.^[12][13]