Kai-Fu Lee is the C.E.O. of Sinovation Ventures and New York Times best-selling author of “AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order.” He is the former president of Google China and was a senior executive at Microsoft, SGI, and Apple. He is co-chair of the Artificial Intelligence Council at the World Economic Forum. He has a bachelor's degree from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon. His numerous honors include being named among the Time 100 and Wired 25 Icons lists. He is based in Beijing.