American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation

The American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation (Traditional Chinese: 美國竺可楨教育基金會; Simplified Chinese: 美国竺可桢教育基金会; abbr.:AZKEF), is an educational foundation of Zhejiang University based in United States.

The foundation was founded by the Zhejiang University alumni in North America in October 1995.^[1] Its designation is to promote the cooperation and between Zhejiang University and American universities. The first president of the foundation was Kwang-Chu Chao.^{[citation needed]}

The foundation is named after the ZJU's former president ZHU Kezhen (aka Coching CHU, Zhu Kezhen is Pinyin spelling).^{[citation needed]}