Dr. Chen Xi is currently a Visiting Senior Fellow at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University. His expertise includes geo-technological competition and collaboration. He served as President of the Institute of Smart City Research at the ZTE Corporation and an advisor for ZTE Strategy Committee on issues concerning geo-politics and geo-economics. He played a leading role in the designing of smart city projects spanning from Beijing, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Gwadar in Pakistan, to Frankfort metropolitan area. He completed his PhD from a joint program run by Dalian University of Technology and Cornell University. He did his post-doctoral research at the School of International Studies and the Office of S&T Development at Peking University and the School of Computer Science at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.