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Qian Xiao is the Vice Dean of the Institute for AI International Governance (I-AIIG) and Deputy Director of the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) at Tsinghua University.

From 2003 to 2014, she served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as the Chinese Embassies in Russia and in the UK as Third Secretary, Second Secretary and First Secretary. She joined the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) in 2015, where she contributed to parliamentary engagement and work related to the NPC Spokesperson’s Office.

From 2015 onwards, she has been engaged in the establishment of the National Institute for Global Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and its subsequent operation, where she worked on the organization of a series of events including U.S.-China Manor Forum, Joint U.S.-China Think Tank Project, U.S.-China High-level Experts Dialogue, and Weekend Forum on Security and Strategy.

In January 2019, Ms. Xiao joined Tsinghua University in the establishment and development of CISS and I-AIIG. In addition, she is the Director of the Office of International Affairs of Tsinghua University.

Jean Todt has served as the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Road Safety since 2015, when he was appointed by former Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. He is also the chairman of the board for the International Peace Institute, the vice president of the Paris Brain Institute, the chairman of the Suu Foundation, and a board member of the Ban Ki-moon Foundation, the FIFA Foundation, and Gaumont. He is the former president of the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, and served as the chief executive officer of Ferrari from 2006 to 2009. Prior to that, he held senior-level positions overseeing racing and sporting activities at Ferrari and Peugeot Talbot Sport, after starting his career as a rally co-driver in 1966 and winning the World Rally Championship for Manufacturers in 1981. Todt received the Humanitarian of the Year Award by the United Nations Association of New York in 2016 and is a recipient of the Grand-Croix de la Légion d'Honneur. He is married to Oscar-winning actress, film producer, and UN Development Programme Goodwill Ambassador Michelle Yeoh. He has one son, Nicolas, and one grandson, Maxime.

Prof. XUE Lan, Cheung Kong Chair Distinguished Professor, Dean of Schwarzman College and Dean of Institute for AI International Governance of Tsinghua University (I-AIIG). In Tsinghua University, he also serves as a Deputy Director of Strategic Research Institute for Engineering, Science and Technology, Director of China Institute for S&T Policy, Co-Director of Global Institute for SDGs. His teaching and research interest includes STI policy, crisis management, and global governance. From 2000-2018, He served as Associate Dean, Executive Associate Dean, and Dean of the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University.

He also serves as the Convener of the State Council Public Administration Disciplinary Review Committee, a member of the National Committee for Strategic Consultation and Comprehensive Review, the Chair of the National Expert Committee on AI Governance, a member of the Advisory Group of STI Directory of OECD, an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University, a Non-Resident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution. He is a recipient of the Fudan Distinguished Contribution Award for Management Science, the Distinguished Contribution Award from Chinese Association for Science of Science and S&T Policy and the Second National Award for Excellence in Innovation.

Bill’s experience is in the combination of passenger and freight surface transportation planning, energy, environmental, and safety research, product and process development, and legislative and regulatory policy for Federal, state, local and international entities. He has published articles and made presentations on the subjects of emerging and developing technologies, operations, regulations, and enforcement for vehicles and impacts to the environment, energy efficiency and safety enhancements. He has several patents for both products and processes (one project displayed in the Smithsonian Institution). He studied mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech and has taken the executive master’s program in transport emissions at the University of Leeds (UK). He is the Co-Secretary of the United Nations ECE Working Group for Validation Methods of Automated Driving. Or, he started playing with cars and trucks when he was about a year old and has never stopped. Bill has been working on intelligent vehicles, drive assistance and automated driving systems for passenger cars and commercial vehicles for over twenty years. While he was at Freightliner (the largest truck manufacturer in North America), he was the project manager for the world’s first roll stability control system – the precursor to electronic stability control which is present on virtually every late model vehicle in the USA. He has several patents for both products and processes (one project displayed in the Smithsonian Institution). He studied mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech and has taken the executive master’s program in transport emissions at the University of Leeds (UK). He is the Co-Secretary of the United Nations ECE Working Group for Validation Methods of Automated Driving.

Professor Shen is a distinguished legal scholar with extensive expertise in various areas of law. He was the former Dean of the School of Law, at Tsinghua University (2016-2022).Professor Shen's research interests encompass a wide range of topics, including Property Law, Contract Law, Torts, Health Law, Artificial Intelligence and Law. He has been involved in numerous research projects sponsored by prestigious organizations and has received various awards and honours for his outstanding contributions to the field of law. His extensive experience in China and abroad as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Germany and a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School has enriched his perspective and deepened his insights into legal matters.

Francois E. Guichard, Mechanical Engineer, is the Intelligent Transport Systems and Automated Driving focal point at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).

He supervises activities related to technical regulations on vehicle automation and connectivity, serving as Secretary to the Working Party on Automated/Autonomous and Connected Vehicles (GRVA) under the World Forum WP.29, which developed the Global Technical Regulation on Automated Driving Systems and UN Regulation No. 171 on Driver-Control Assistance Systems. He also oversees legal aspects related to automated vehicles in traffic as Secretary to the Global Forum for Road Traffic Safety (WP.1). In addition, Mr. Guichard is currently acting as advisor to the WP.29 Informal Working Group (IWG) on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and is responsible for overseeing the 1997 Agreement on Periodic Technical Inspections. He is a member of the Foreign Advisory Expert Group on Intelligent and Connected Vehicles in China, the Advisory Group of the FAME project and its successor the CCAMbassador project (funded by Horizon Europe), and the National Road Safety Committee of France (CNSR).

Previously, he worked as a line manager at Daimler AG, where he advocated for the introduction of Advanced Emergency Braking Systems (AEBS) into legislation, contributing to improved road safety. Earlier in his career, he advised several countries on strategies to address environmental issues, building on his experience as an engineer specializing in noise, greenhouse gas (GHG), and pollutant emissions testing. He began his career as an International Management Associate at Mercedes-Benz, gaining experience in Germany, South Africa, and the United States of America.

Xuan Liu is the cofounder of DeepRoute.ai, a leading company developing artificial intelligence techniques for the physical world, particularly in autonomous driving technology. Before launching DeepRoute.ai, Xuan honed his expertise as an AI Engineer at Google and Baidu in Silicon Valley. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University (Yao Class) and a Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore.

Fan Hailong is an expert in the field of intelligent connected vehicle safety evaluation. He serves as General Manager of the Electronic Information Division at China Merchants Testing Vehicle Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd., and Deputy Director of the National Quality Inspection and Testing Center for Intelligent Connected Vehicles (Chongqing). With over 20 years of technical accumulation and management experience in vehicle evaluation, he has long been committed to core technology research and development as well as the construction of evaluation systems covering intelligent driving safety, intelligent driving performance, vehicle artificial intelligence, intelligent cockpits, information security and other fields.

He holds multiple important concurrent positions, including Secretary-General of the Automotive Special Committee of the International AI Governance Alliance, Member of the Automotive Big Data Application Branch of the China Society of Automotive Engineers, Deputy Group Leader of the China Intelligent Connected Vehicle Industry Innovation Alliance, Vice Chairman of the Satellite Internet Vehicle Application Branch of the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, Off-Campus Supervisor of Beijing Institute of Technology, and Industry Expert of Chongqing Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology. His work achievements have been widely recognized across the industry, earning him numerous honors such as provincial and ministerial-level innovation awards and the Special Prize for "Technical Figure of the Year" at the provincial and ministerial level.

In terms of technical research, Fan Hailong presided over or participated as a core technical lead in multiple major national and provincial research projects. These include the 14th Five-Year Plan National Key R&D Program project "R&D and Demonstration Application of a Basic Information Platform for Trusted Cluster Autonomous Driving Evaluation", and Chongqing’s major special project for automotive core software development "Development of Comprehensive Test and Evaluation Methods and Systems for the Safety and Reliability of Intelligent Connected Vehicles". He has published several influential technical monographs and high-level papers such as Virtual Simulation Test and Evaluation Technology for Intelligent Vehicles, and led the formulation of many technical standards.

In terms of innovative achievements, he spearheaded the development of the AI-SAP and pioneered a six-dimensional safety evaluation model, filling the domestic gap in the system for dynamic safety evaluation of intelligent vehicles. He released the AI-STAR, establishing the world’s first framework for vehicle artificial intelligence safety testing systems. He led the development of AI-CAP, China’s first evaluation programme for integrated cockpit and driving systems, systematically resolving key technical challenges in cockpit evaluation. He also presided over the construction of China’s first automotive EPD platform, building a bridge for international mutual recognition of the environmental footprint of China’s full automotive life cycle.

As a facilitator linking academic research, technical standards and industrial practice, Fan Hailong’s groundbreaking achievements in intelligent connected vehicle safety evaluation stand as technical milestones, significantly advancing the development of China’s technical system for intelligent connected vehicle evaluation.

Ruoyue Luo is Vice President and Partner of QAX.  She concurrently serves as Head of the Financial Regulatory User Group at China Electronics Corporation (CEC), Vice President and Secretary-General of the Alumni Association of the School of Computer Science at Beihang University (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, BUAA), Leadership Mentor of Beihang University’s Navigator Program, and Deputy Secretary-General of the “Global Frontiers in Science — Top 50” Think Tank at the UNESCO International Centre for Higher Education Innovation.

Ms. Luo has long been deeply engaged in the cybersecurity industry, she has successfully led teams to deliver end-to-end cybersecurity solutions — ranging from high-level strategic planning and technical implementation to systematic operations — for major banks and critical telecommunications operators. Her leadership and expertise have made outstanding contributions to safeguarding China’s critical information infrastructure.