is the author of “Internet: The King Who Rules” (1997), the first book introducing the Internet to Chinese readers, and “The Rising Cacophony: Personal Expression and Public Discussion in the Internet Age” (2008), documenting major transformations in the Chinese cyberspace. He is professor at Peking University’s School of Journalism and Communication, a member of the Steering Committee of Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC), and also a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Social Media, 2013–2016. In 2017 Hu was nominated for the Thinkers50 Digital Thinking Award. In 2018, he was included in the Thinkers50 Radar list of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led.