焦方太，男，1964年9月生，山东青州人。管理学博士、经济学教授、硕士生导师。现任学校党委常委、副校长。
1984年9月至1988年6月在厦门大学哲学系学习，获哲学学士学位。1988年8月毕业分配到广东外语外贸大学（原广州外贸学院）工作，先后担任学生辅导员、团委书记、党总支副书记、学院副院长、学校教务处副处长等职务。2006年12月至2013年12月，任学校国际合作与交流处处长、港澳台事务办公室主任。2013年12月至2016年1月，任学校教务处处长、招生办公室主任。（其中，2003年8月至2004年8月，参加广东省第五批高层次管理人才出国培训项目，在美国夏威夷大学Shidler商学院研修。2005年9月到2009年6月，在武汉大学经济与管理学院在职学习，获得管理学博士学位。）2015年10月起，任学校党委常委、副校长。
主要从事国际贸易政策、国际经济合作、企业国际化经营等方面的教学和研究工作。曾获得广东省高教系统教书育人先进个人荣誉称号。先后在《经济日报》、《国际贸易》、《学术研究》、《南方经济》、《武汉大学学报》等重要期刊上发表学术论文20篇。作为主要成员，参与亚洲开发银行（ADB）委托的“广-梅-汕铁路的社会经济效益分析”等课题的研究。主持或作为主要成员参与“基于国际经验的区域创新体系动力机制研究”、“广外与拉美高等院校校际交流与科研合作探索”等省级研究课题（含省级教改项目）5项。先后担任广东省跨国公司研究中心秘书长、广东省WTO事务咨询服务中心理事、广东省高等教育学会外国文教专家工作委员会会长、广东省高等学校教学管理学会常务理事等职务。
分管本科教育教学工作，非通用语人才培养基地，教育技术工作，招生工作，考试中心工作，南国商学院工作；国际合作与交流工作，留学生教育工作；联系商学院、会计学院、体育部、留学生院。
Jiao Fangtai (male) was born in September 1964 in Qingzhou, Shandong Province. Jiao is a doctor of Management, professor of Economics and supervisor of Masters amd is currently a standing committee of Party Committee and Vice President of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.
From September 1984 to June 1988, Jiao studied at the Department of Philosophy in Xiamen University and received a bachelor's degree in philosophy. After graduation in August 1988, Jiao was assigned to the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (formerly Guangzhou Institute of Foreign Trade) to work successively as a student counselor, secretary of Communist Youth League, Deputy Secretary of the Party Branch, Vice President of the school and the Deputy Director of the Academic Affairs Office. From December 2006 to December 2013, Jiao served as Director of International Cooperation and Exchange Office and Director of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs Office. From December 2013 to January 2016, Jiao was the Director of the University’s Academic Affairs Office and Director of Admissions Office Director. (During the period from August 2003 to August 2004, Jiao participated in the fifth group of high-level management personnel training program in Guangdong Province and trained at the Shidler Business School in the University of Hawaii. And from 2005 September to June 2009, Jiao was engaged in the in-service study in the Economy and Management School of Wuhan University and received a doctorate in management.) Since October 2015, Jiao took the position of a standing committee of school party committee and vice president of the University.
Jiao has been preoccupied with the teaching and research work in international trade policy, international economic cooperation, international management of enterprises and other aspects and has been awarded the personal honorary title of Teaching and Moralizing Students in the advanced educational system of Guangdong province. Jiao has published over 20 academic papers in important journals such as "Economic Daily", "International Trade", "Academic Research", "Southern Economy" and "Journal of Wuhan University" etc. As a key member, Jiao participated in the research of "Social and Economic Analysis of Guangzhou--Meizhou--Shantou Railway" and other issues commissioned by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and presided over or participated as a major member in five provincial research projects of the "Research on regional innovation system dynamic mechanism based on international experience", " Inter-school exchanges and research cooperation exploration among GDUFS and Latin American institutions of higher learning"(including provincial education reform projects) etc. Jiao has served as Secretary General of Guangdong Provincial Research Center for Multinational Corporations, Director of WTO Affairs Consultation Service Center of Guangdong Province, Chairman of Guangdong Provincial Higher Education Association Foreign Culture and Education Expert Committee, Executive Director of Guangdong Institute of Education and Management.
Jiao took charge of undergraduates’ education and teaching work and non-common language training base and was preoccupied with education and technical work, enrollment work, test center work, South China business school work, international cooperation and exchange work, foreign students’ education. Moreover, Jiao is also in charge of Business School, Accounting School, Sports department and Foreign Students’ School.