1982年1月毕业于华南理工大学自动化系，工学学士，并任教于该校的现代控制理论研究室。

1985年-1987年任职于汕头经济特区管理委员会。

1989年毕业于英国格拉斯哥大学 （Glasgow University） 计算机科学系，计算机科学硕士（M Sc.）。

1990年毕业于英国格拉斯哥大学（Glasgow University）社会科学院，行政管理学硕士（MUA）。

1991年-2001年任职于汕头经济特区管理委员会驻香港联络部。2001年起任职于招商局集团信息技术部。

有多年参与并主持计算机应用系统设计、规划、实施的经历，及在地方政府和不同部门的管理工作经验。

James Stanbridge was born in 1964 in Hertfordshire, England. He lives in Shanghai and is married to Linda and has a baby daughter Molly. An entrepreneurial, strategic leader who loves to 'join the dots' and 'get stuff done' - James attributes his success to a profound faith in people and focus on execution.

James moved to China in 2005 to take the lead in building global foundation services in ASIA for Microsoft Corp with teams in China, Japan and India. He joined Microsoft in 2001 as Director of Technical Operations in London for online services (hotmail, MSN, Messenger etc).

His first commercial software application shipped in 1987 while involved with a startup enterprise, by the mid 90's he was working at Yamaha Motor writing applications hooking up IBM mainframe computers to Windows PCs, geo mapping data for marketing and sales folks.

1998 Built and designed the first Yamaha Motor website and intranets in the UK and then Europe-wide. He then joined AltaVista as the first engineering lead hired in EMEA; building datacenters in Sweden, Germany and London.

James is an Executive coach in the 'Excelerrate' program at Fudan University and is a formal mentor to young leaders inside and outside Microsoft and a Board member of the not-for-profit organization Lifeline Shanghai (www.lifelineshanghai).

In his spare time, James never tires of learning something new, collects 'gadgets', loves to cook for friends and family and enjoys a robust debate.

Xu Yan is currently Associate Professor of the Department of Information and Systems Management of the HKUST Business School, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

He received his PhD from the Strathclyde Business School of the UK in 1997. He had working experience in the former Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) of China, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Tsukuba University of Japan, Hamburg University of Technology in Germany, British Telecom's Laboratories and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). His research and teaching interests include technology and innovation management, and regulatory policy of telecommunications.

He has provided extensive consulting and executive training for the Audit Commission of Hong Kong Government, British Telecom, the Communications Association of Hong Kong (CAHK), China Mobile, China Telecom, HUTCHISON TELEPHONE COMPANY LIMITED (3 HK), the ITU, Nortel, OFTA, Pakistan Telecommunications Authority, TCL, TechMatrix, the National Telecommunications Commission of Thailand, the Telephone Organization of Thailand, and the former MPT of China.

He has published extensively in renowned international journals such as Telecommunications Policy. His book (with Douglas Pitt), Chinese Telecommunications Policy, published by Artech House, is regarded as the benchmark in the analysis of Chinese telecommunications policy. He is currently on the board of executive directors of the International Telecommunications Society (ITS) serving as Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee. He is also the committee member of ITU Telecom World Forum Advisory Committee. He has been appointed as President, Regulatory Issues Group of the Communications Association of Hong Kong (CAHK) since 2005 and executive board member of Hong Kong Telecommunications User Group since 2007. He is currently in the editorial board of Communications and Strategies, INFO and Chinese Journal of Communications.