Invited Keynote Speakers | KDD 2012
ROBIN LI
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO
Baidu, Inc.Title: TBA
Robin Li is the co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Baidu, Inc., and oversees the company’s overall strategy and business operations. Since co-founding the company in January 2000, Robin has grown Baidu into the largest Chinese search engine. Baidu now has over 75% market share in search in China, and ranks as the third largest independent search engine in the world. In 2005, Baidu completed a successful IPO on NASDAQ, and in 2007 became the first Chinese company to be included in the NASDAQ-100 Index. Today, Baidu is among the most valuable brands in China. The Financial Times named Baidu one of the “Top 10 Chinese Global Brands,” making it the youngest and only Internet company on the list.
Robin Li was named “China Economic Figure of the Year 2005” by CCTV and one of “China’s Most Powerful Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders” by China Entrepreneurs Forum. He was also named one of the “Best Business Leaders in the World” by Business Week Magazine and one of the “Most Influential Chinese Business Leaders” by Fortune Magazine. In 2010, Robin Li was named by both Forbes and Times magazine as one of the “Most Influential People in the World.”
Robin received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Information Management from Peking University in 1991, and a Master of Science Degree in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1994.