Xongshan Cai is Vice President at Kuaishou, a popular short-video platform in China. Formerly, he was the director and Chief Researcher of Law Research Center, Tencent Research Institute. He is also associated with Internet Development Research Institute, Peking University. Mr. Cai teaches the master’s course Cyber Law at Communication University of China.

Mr. Cai holds master’s degrees in International Law from Transnational Law and Business University (TLBU), South Korea,  and in European Union and International Economic Law from Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne). He has also been a visiting scholar at Yale University.

Mr. Cai has worked in the Policy and Economics Research Institute of CAICT (China Academy of Information and Communications Technology), Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. He has served as the negotiator of the Chinese government for the China-Switzerland Free Trade Zone Negotiation and one of the Chinese experts for the China-Europe Digital Economy Expert Dialogue. Mr. Cai has presented at the World Trade Organization, Oxford University, APEC, and others, introducing China’s Internet industry and legislation. He speaks Chinese, English, French and has elementary command of Spanish.

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