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Chen Jihong is a Partner at Zhong Lun Law Firm and is widely regarded as one of the leading cyber security and IP lawyers in the PRC having advised some of the world's largest companies, both foreign and domestic.

Mr Chen’s main areas of legal expertise include: TMT Law, Intellectual property protection, IP portfolio management, IP licensing, e-Commerce, Privacy and data protection, anti-unfair competition, cyber security, domain name dispute resolution, IT and High-tech related legal matters.

Fluent in both Chinese and English, Jihong received his Masters at Tsinghua University in 1996, before graduating from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 2002. Mr Chen is widely published in leading academic journals and has received numerous awards domestically in the areas of IP and telecommunications law, most recently Mr. Chen was selected as “2015 China Top 15 IP Lawyers” by Asia Law and Business and in 2016 was awarded “Telecommunications Law -Lawyer of the Year in China” by Corporate INTL.

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Dr. GONG Renhai, Director of Policy Research, SAP Greater China, who also serves as the National Chair of Cybers-security Sub-working Group under EUCCC. He mainly focuses on tracking legal and practical research on Cybersecurity Law, Cryptography Law and other related digital economic laws and regulations, Foreign Investment Law, Autonomous and Controllable Policy. Dr. Gong has been working in central government agencies for near two decades, who was mainly engaged in the WTO Rules Negotiations in Doha Round, consultations of bilateral free trade areas, competition law, trade remedy law and IPR border enforcement. His diplomatic mission lasted for three and half years in the Chinese Embassy in Washington D.C., whose responsibilities were to deal with trade frictions and to study IPR legislation and judicature.
In 2002, he was awarded Master of Arts degree (High Distinguished) in International Relations in Economy and Trade from Flinders University of South Australia. In 2014, Renhai got Ph.D. degree (cum laude) in the major of International Economic Law in China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL). In addition, he was nominated as a senior fellow in the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) under Swire Group Scholarship Award.