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Liming Zhu
Currently Chief Expert and Deputy Chief Economist at the Zhejiang Provincial Development and Planning Research Institute; Director of the Macroeconomic Research Institute of the Provincial Development and Reform Commission and the Economic Research Institute of the Zhejiang Provincial Development and Planning Research Institute; concurrently serves as a Master’s degree supervisor at Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Executive Director of the Zhejiang Research Centre for High-Quality Regional Development, Member of the Advisory Committee to the Zhejiang Provincial People’s Government, and Vice-President of the Zhejiang Association for New-Type Think Tanks

Liyun Han
Adjunct Research Fellow at the Jing Shi Think Tank; Advisory Expert on Emerging Technology Security at the Henry Dunant Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Switzerland; former Secretary-General of the 360 Future Security Research Institute

Min Li
Member of the Zhejiang Provincial Advisory Committee; Advisor to the Expert Committee of the China Digital Economy 100; Chief Expert at the Zhejiang Institute for Information Development; and Deputy Director of the Zhejiang Business Development Institute. Former Deputy Director-General and First-Class Inspector of the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Economy and Information Technology. He has long been responsible for overseeing Zhejiang Province’s efforts in informatisation, artificial intelligence, the digital economy and industrial development, and is a leading expert in China’s digital economy sector.

Sureswaran Ramadass
Emeritus Professor, Universiti Sains Malaysia; Chair of the Malaysian IPv6 Forum

Wenlong Li
Research Fellow and PhD Supervisor, Institute for Digital Rule of Law, Zhejiang University

Xiao Zhang
Deputy Director of the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC); Member of the Expert Group of the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF); Executive Deputy Director of the China IGF

Xinmin Gao
Former Director of the National Information Centre, former Vice-Chairman of the Internet Society of China, and member of the Expert Advisory Committee of the Internet Society of China

Yan Ma
Professor at the School of Computer Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications; Deputy Director of the Internet Technology Technical Committee of the Chinese Computer Society. He has previously held various external positions, including Executive Committee Member of the Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC). He is currently a Director of the Chinese Association of Senior Professors and a member of the Expert Committee of the China Education and Research Network (CERNET).

Yuan Tian
Research Fellow, Zhejiang Academy of Human Resources and Social Security Sciences

Zhihua Yan
Currently serves as a Research Fellow and Deputy Secretary-General at the Jiangsu Zijin Media Think Tank; Vice-President of the Jiangsu Public Relations Association, concurrently serving as Chair of the Academic Committee and Chief Public Opinion Expert; Member of the Public Opinion Professional Committee at the Public Opinion Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Research Fellow and Supervising Lecturer in Public Opinion at the Institute of Public Opinion and Crisis Management, Nanjing Normal University. He also holds positions as a visiting professor at several universities and acts as a media and public opinion adviser to numerous provincial and departmental government bodies.