James Liang

Executive Chairman of the Board, Ctrip; Professor, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University Business Circle

James Jianzhang Liang is the co-founder and executive chairman of the board of Ctrip.com International, Ltd. (NASDAQ: CTRP), the largest online travel company in China. Mr. Liang co-founded Ctrip in 1999 with three partners. He has served as a member of the board of directors since the inception of Ctrip and served as the chairman of the board since August 2003. Mr. Liang also served as chief executive officer from 2000 to January 2006 and from March 2013 to November 2016. Prior to Ctrip, Mr. Liang held a number of technical and managerial positions with Oracle Corporation from 1991 to 1999 in the United States and China, including the head of the ERP consulting division of Oracle China from 1997 to 1999.
Mr. Liang is also a research professor in Economics at Peking University. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University in 2011 and received his master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology. He also attended undergraduate program of Fudan University.