어우 보첸 한중일협력사무국 사무총장은 중국 외교학원을 졸업하고 조지 워싱턴대 엘리엇 국제관계대학원 석사 과정을 마쳤다. 1989년 중국 외교부 입부 후 아프리카국, 정보부서와 정책 및 행정부서 등에서 요직을 역임하며 우간다, 호주에 파견돼 근무한 이력도 있다. 주그레나다 중국대사, 중국인민외교학회 부회장을 거쳐 지난 2021년 9월 한중일협력사무국 사무총장으로 부임했다.

Amb. OU Boqian is Secretary-General of Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat. She graduated from China Foreign Affairs University and received Master of International Policy and Practice from Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. She joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China in 1989, and served in different positions at Department of African affairs, Information Department, Policy Planning Department and General Office. Her career in early years also includes the posts at oversea missions of China in Uganda and Australia. She became Ambassador extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of China to Grenada in 2013, and was Vice President of Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs in 2017-2021. She took office as Secretary-General of the Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat in September 2021.