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Dr. Christina Yan Zhang

CEO, The Metaverse Institute; Co-Chairman, UN ITU’s CitiVerse Taskgroup
United Kingdom Future of Living Summit

Christina is an award-winning business leader with 18 years of experience. Christina is a metaverse pioneer since 2006 to develop universities’ international strategies. In 2012, she completed a PhD using digital twin to augment the AEC Industry.

She has sat on 20 + committees for UNESCO, World Bank, Commonwealth, EU and UK Governments. She is Co-chairman of the International Telecommunication Union, the UN ICT agency‘s Taskgroup on Pre-standardisation for the CitiVerse. Her mandate is to create the first UN roadmap that utilizes frontier technologies to develop citizen-centred future smart cities, leading to international standards.

Her work has been recognised internationally. For example, she is featured alongside Prof Jeffrey Sachs, President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network as the Cover People on Digital Equity by Huawei’s Global Magazine Transform in 2024.