Björn Conrad is CEO and co-founder of Sinolytics. He has more than two decades of China experience and is a recognized expert and frequent Board-level speaker on China’s technology, economic, and industrial policy as well as geopolitical strategy.Sinolytics is a specialized consultancy providing expert analysis and strategic advice on China. The company, based in Berlin and Beijing, puts a focus on the nexus between policy and business, providing deep expertise and strategic advice on the Chinese government’s economic, industrial and technology policies, as well as geopolitical shifts and their impact on foreign business in China. Sinolytics also specializes on new forms of big data enabled market regulation and regulatory compliance in the Chinese market. Before starting Sinolytics in 2017, Conrad was Vice President and part of the founding team of the Mercator Institute for China Studies. MERICS is one of the world’s largest think tanks for practical research on contemporary China. It provides analysis and advice to decision-makers as well as information for the general public. In this position, he was appointed to serve in several China expert commissions of the German Federal Government. Prior to his engagement at MERICS, Conrad worked at the World Bank/GEF in Washington D.C. as well as the joint program of the World Bank and the United Nations FAO in Rome. During these years, he evaluated and designed numerous projects in China, spending large parts of his professional life in almost all provinces of the People’s Republic. Before joining the World Bank, Conrad co-established and managed the “Rising Powers and Global Governance” area of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi). Prior posts include positions at the Boston Consulting Group, the German Foreign Office in Berlin and the UN Secretariat in New York.Conrad received a Master of Arts in Sinology, Political Science, Economics from the University of Trier and Peking University as well as Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.