Dr. Chen Xi is an expert on geopolitical and technological (geo-tech) competition, smart cities and corporation strategy. He is the founder of Harbor Overseas, a global smart-city consulting company. He is the creator of the Asia Smart City Ranking, The Group of Twenty (G20) Smart City Ranking,the BRICS Smart City Ranking, and the Asia Smart City Quarterly Review. He is a Visiting Senior Felow at the Emirates Center for Mobility Research, United Arab Emirates University, to lead a study of building smart city cluster in the League of Arab States (LAS) Region, collaborating with faculties from geography, urban sustainability and transportation. He is also a member of the academic committee at the Institute for Global Cooperation and Understanding of Peking University. He served as the president of the Institute of Smart City Planning and Design of Beijing Municipality, having assisted the Beijing Municipal Government to formulate policy, regulations, and evaluation systems for smart city development. Also, he was a visiting senior fellow at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. He served as president of the Institute of Smart City Research at the ZTE Corporation and an advisor to the company’s strategy committee. He led in designing smart-city projects in Beijing Sub-center and Gwadar (Pakistan). He has contributed dozens of commentaries to global think tanks, including through the Think20 (T20) process under the G20. He completed his PhD in a joint program between Dalian University of Technology and Cornell University under the sponsorship of the China Scholarship Council. He finished his post-doctoral research (with excellence) on the China-US geo-tech competitionat Peking University.