Dr. Christina Yan Zhang

Christina is a global authority on leveraging the convergence of frontier technologies to architect systemic change for a people-centered, planet-friendly digital future. Christina is a pioneer in the metaverse and completed a PhD using digital twin for the AEC Industry in 2012.

She has sat on 20+ committees for UNESCO, World Bank, EU. She's ITU’s Co-chair of TaskGroup on Pre-standardisation for the CitiVerse, authored 1st UN report on “People-Centered CitiVerse,” introducing 8 levels to develop a people-centered, planet-friendly digital future, leading to global standards.

Alongside 73rd President of UN General Assembly, she sits on Advisory Council for Centre for Science Futures of International Science Council, the world's largest science body of 250 national/international academies of sciences; and advisory board on the AI economy for The Economist Impact.