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Akinori Maemura
Visiting Professor, Kyoto University of Information Science; Chief Policy Officer, Japan Network Information Centre (JPNIC)

Baoguo Cui
Professor at Tsinghua University; Director of the Tsinghua University Centre for Media Economics and Management; Director of the Tsinghua-Nikkei Media Research Institute

Bin Wang
Secretary-General of the Mediation Working Committee and the Working Committee on the Protection and Development of Minors Online, China Internet Association Research areas: Online protection of minors, the Chinese internet

Bo Han
Deputy Director of the Editorial Office and Research Fellow at the Centre for Media Research, Institute of Journalism and Communication, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Managing Editor of Journalism and Communication Studies

Chengqing Huang
currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Internet Society of China, a member of the Advisory Committee of the Fuxi Think Tank, Chairman of the National Next-Generation Internet Industry Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance, Chief Advisor on Information Technology to the Ministry of Justice, Chairman of the Industrial Control Security Professional Committee of the China Hydropower Engineering Society, Standing Committee Member of the Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Member of the Expert Advisory Committee on Science and Technology Supervision of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, and Member of the Working Committee on Social Responsibility in the Internet Industry. He also holds positions such as Independent Director of Xinhua News Agency and Teled New Energy Co., Ltd. He previously served as Director of the National Computer Network and Information Security Management Centre, Director of the Information Centre of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and Secretary-General of the Internet Society of China. He has been Vice Chairman of the Internet Society of China since 2008 and served as Vice Chairman of the China Cyberspace Security Association from 2019 to 2023. Since 2020, he has served as an independent director for companies including Xinhua Net and AsiaInfo Security.

Chengyu Xiong
Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Humanities; Professor at Tsinghua University; Senior Professor at the Communication University of China and Director of the Institute for Cultural Development and Communication

DaeYoung Kim
Professor Emeritus, Chungnam National University (retired); previously served for many years as a Full Professor in the Department ofInfoCom Engineering at Chungnam National University, South Korea and as Director of the Advanced Network Technology Centre. Former Vice-Chair of the Asia-Pacific Advanced Networking Organisation (APAN) and Vice-Chair of the Future Internet Forum (FIF) for South Korea

Dong Liu
Director of the National Engineering Centre for the Next-Generation Internet; Vice-Chairman of the Internet Society of China

Ge Yan
Distinguished Professor at the School of Chinese Language and Literature, Zhejiang International Studies University; former Deputy Director of the Zhejiang Branch of China News Service

Hualin Qian
Research Fellow at the Computer Network Information Centre of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Technical Lead for China’s connection to the global Internet and the establishment of China’s national top-level domain system; a driving force behind the internationalisation of the Internet domain name system; inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2014

Jinhe Liu
Assistant Professor, Research Fellow and PhD Supervisor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Peking University; PhD from Tsinghua University

Le Cheng
Executive Director of the Zhijiang Think Tank; Professor at the Guanghua School of Law and the School of Cyberspace Security, Zhejiang University; Executive Vice-Dean of the Institute of International Strategy and Law