{"id":1658,"date":"2023-08-09T12:37:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T12:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/?page_id=1658"},"modified":"2025-08-21T13:44:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:44:35","slug":"christina-yan-zhang","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/standards4dt\/christina-yan-zhang\/","title":{"rendered":"Christina Yan Zhang"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Christina Yan Zhang
<\/strong>CEO and Founder, The Metaverse Institute
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Christina is a metaverse pioneer. She started her master research on the topic in 2006 to develop universities\u2019 international strategies. In 2012, with full scholarship, she completed a PhD in using digital twin in the metaverse to augment the AEC industry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Christina is an award-winning business leader with 17 years of experience turning forward-thinking ideas into successful businesses. She worked for QS, the world university rankings agency 2013-2020, as China Director. In 2016, China\u2019s Vice Premier highlighted the use of QS rankings in a keynote speech, impacting 5 years funding allocations of \u00a3750bn to 3005 universities with 48 million students.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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She has sat on 20+ committees for UNESCO, World Bank, Commonwealth, EU, and UK Governments. She is Vice Chair of the UN ITU Metaverse Working Group on Sustainability, Accessibility and Inclusion, and Co-chair on Pre-standardization for the Citiverse Task Group. She sits on Advisory Council of Centre for Science Futures at International Science Council, with a UN mandate to advise the impact of AI on the global innovation ecosystem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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She regularly meets with top leaders, is a frequent keynote speaker at high level events, and is interviewed by top media. She recently spoke at WIPO summit, UN High-Level Political Forum, UN STI Forum on cities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The Metaverse Institute advise the UN, governments, investors, corporates using emerging technologies to bring positive impact. They recently produced the world\u2019s first people centred metaverse strategy Tampere Metaverse Vision 2040.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/blockquote>\n<\/div> <\/div>\n

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The Metaverse Institute<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>

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