James Liang
Chinese businessman
James Jianzhang Liang (梁建章; born December 1969) is a Chinese American social scientist and businessman who has been the chairman of Trip.com Group since 2003. He also is a professor at the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University, conducting research on demographics and social sciences.
He is the former CEO and the co-founder of Trip.com Group. Liang has been vocal on China's population policies since 2012 and in generating public interest in issues such as education and urban planning.
Early life
Liang entered a special class for gifted youths (少年班) at Fudan University in Shanghai in 1985. He studied at Fudan University for one year before leaving to attend Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States.
Liang received a master's degree in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1989 and a PhD in economics from Stanford University in 2011.
Career
Business
From 1991 to 1999, Liang worked for Oracle Corporation in the US and China, in technical and managerial roles, rising to head of Oracle China's ERP consulting division.
Liang co-founded Ctrip in 1999, with Neil Shen, Min Fan, and Ji Qi. He served as CEO from 2000 to January 2006, and again from March 2013 to November 2016.
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