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Prof Herbert Chia is currently the Director of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited, Senior Advisor of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence (North APAC Region) , former Venture Partner of Sequoia Capital China and former Board of Directors of Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation. With over 15 years of experience in data strategy and analytics, he has formed his own unique way of data-thinking and data-management and has original insights in the future of big data. Herbert has led Alibaba’s data team to make a series of significant achievements in the practical field of big data, including establishing a business and decision-making analytics framework for Alibaba Group’s business groups, developing intelligent data products, creating an operation team contributing to the datamation of the group, successfully launching the public and proprietary Data Asset Management systems, and releasing the Data Protection Pact.

Herbert joined Alibaba in 2010 and served as the Vice President of Alibaba Group and the Chairman of its Data Committee. During his tenure, the team awarded "China Excellent IT Team" in the 2014 "Excellent Chinese CIO" selection. In addition, Herbert was also rated as 2017 “China Top 10 Most Influential Big Data Entrepreneurs” by the State Information Center. In 2018, he won the "China Big Data Technology Leader Award". He is the Adjunct Professor of School of Management of Zhejiang University and the author of the best-selling books "The Big Data", "The Nature of Big Data" and "Data Reinvention" and translated into “Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance". Now, as a globally recognized pioneer of big data, Herbert attributes his success to the passion for innovation and the understanding of the needs of industrial data.

Previously, Herbert was a member of Facilitating China-Hong Kong Big Data Flow Responsibility Task Force (Hong Kong Expert Group Leader). He is actively promoting Hong Kong as a big data pilot city in the Greater Bay Area and the Belt and Road Initiative. In addition, he was Big Data Advisory Group of Beijing Government, The Advisor of Guiyang Big Data Committee, Expert of Shanghai Bureau of Justice Big Data Laboratory, Deputy director of China Computer Federation Big Data Committee, President of Youedata Research Institute and Chief Data Advisor of Jingdong Financial Services.