Speaker Details

Prior to joining Baidu, Ms Li served as controller of General Motors Acceptance Corporation's North American Operations from 2005 to 2008. Prior to GMAC, Ms. Li worked at General Motors China, where she was responsible for overseeing finance functions of General Motors' wholly owned and joint venture businesses in China from 2001 to 2004, with the last post as its chief financial officer. From 1994 to 2001, she held several other finance positions at General Motors in Canada, the United States and Singapore. Ms Li has been serving as a director of Philip Morris International, Inc. since May 2010. Ms Li has been recognized by the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and Forbes variously as one of "Asia's Most Watched Women" and one of the "Top 50 Women in the World to Watch ". 

 

Ms Li holds an MBA degree from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C., Canada and a bachelor of arts degree from Tsinghua University in China.