Xuanyuan Award Committee

Katinka von der LIPPE

Former Chief Designer of Eker Design, Norway

Industrial Designer, Master of Arts. Katinka von der Lippe is an award-winning industrial designer with more than a decade in the green automotive sector. She spent 14 years as Head of Design at TH!NK electric vehicles, leading the development of the TH!NK City vehicles. Her latest acknowledgments range from Red Dot Design Award, nominations by Sebastian Conran to the prestigious Brit Design Award, etc. She is also Head of the Board at Norway’s National Center for Design and Architecture (DogA) and a jury member of INDEX: Design to Improve Life, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Deputy director of State Information Center

Senior Economist, member of Assessment Committee for Senior Economist, NDRC, member of Expert Committee for Strategic Emerging Industry, NDRC, Market Strategy Expert, Ministry of Commerce, Chief Editor, China Automobile Market Outlook. His main research areas are macroeconomic and auto industry research. Xu is responsible for the building of Analysis System for China Auto Market Forecast and has participated several times in the research on the National Auto Industry Annual Plan and 5-Year Plans. He has been given lectures for large OEMs, financial organizations, universities and forums both at home and abroad.

XU Changming

Members of the Xuanyuan Award Jury are not from any automotive OEMs, and are changed from time to time. The new members are recommended by the current members of the Jury, and the Xuanyuan Award Executive Committee shall prevail.

Executive Vice President Vehicle Engineering of EDAG

Managing Director / COO at EDAG, world largest independent vehicle engineering company. He has held a number of managerial positions at 3 other vehicle engineering companies between 1995 and 2016. From 2013 to 2016, as CEO, he was responsible for the management of a large German engineering service provider, MBtech Group. Starting from 2017, he was appointed by EDAG as the Executive Vice President for Vehicle Engineering. Since 2019, he was promoted as the Managing Director and Chief Operation Office.

Harald KELLER

Known as “Steve Jobs” of the automotive sector; founder of the IoV industry. Ken dropped out of college twice; PATEO didn’t seek financing throughout the first 6 years after its foundation, but rather has been making solid efforts in R&D and acquired the highest number of IPR in China. He is the one in the IoV industry worldwide who is best at making a balance between art and technique, product and marketing, as well as taste and technology. He is highly influential in the automotive and Internet industries is now leading the largest IoV enterprise in China.

Founder and President of PATEO

Ken YING

Honorary Chairman of China Society of Automotive Engineers

Serving the Chinese automotive industry for 50 years, Fu has presided over the formulation of a number of technical specifications. He is the former Chairman of SAE China and former President of China Auto Talents Society, former Chief Engineer of China FAW Harbin Automotive Transmission Plant and General Manager of Harbin Automotive Industry Corporation. Set up nationwide automotive lightweight technology innovation alliance, EV technology innovation alliance, automotive equipment technology innovation alliance and telematics industry innovation alliance, as president of these four alliances.

FU Yuwu

FU Li-Chih

Professor of Institute of Design and Innovation, Tongji University

Li-Chih Fu, Chinese American, who has worked in automotive design field for 30 years. Li-Chih graduated from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena USA, Transportation Design in 1990. His OEM experiences including Toyota’s CALTY Design Research, GAC-Toyota, Dongfeng Nissan and Nanjing Auto where he took Design Director post.

Beyond his professional practice, Li-Chih also devoted in car design education as head professor for Tongji University, Nanjing University of Science & Technology and Nanjing Academy of Arts. Currently focused on “Mobility Design” field at Tongji University, School of Design & Innovation.

Founder and CEO of So.Car

Founder and CEO of SoCar Product Strategy Consulting, also the co-founder of EFS Consulting China. Over the past years, he has been committed to the strategy set-up and definition of automotive products and has participated in the definition of more than 80 models. His research focuses more on summarizing and developing ideas and tools for product strategy management that are suitable for Chinese domestic automotive OEMs, especially during the brand exploration period. With the deepening of the industry evolution, his research field is also expanding into the product definition methodology in the smart cars era.

ZHANG Xiaoliang

MA Jun

Professor at School of Automotive Studies & College of Design & Innovation, Tongji University

Doctor of Engineering, Chinese German, graduated from the TU Darmstadt. With 15 years of German working experience, Prof. Ma worked in Germany for Continental, BMW, Audi with responsibilities in active safety product R&D, Chinese marketing and strategy. He is the founder and chief professor of Innovative Design and Entrepreneurship Faculty, leader of Tongji-PSA Innovation Stellab, 021 Incubators Chairman. He has successfully invested in over 10 enterprises and is independent director of certain listed company.

Gansha Wu is devoted to transforming the world’s mobility and logistics with autonomous driving products and solutions. As one of the top runners to commercialize intelligent driving in China, UISEE has been working with more than 20 leading partners and exploring real-world business opportunities in 50 plus scenarios. Before this journey, he was Managing Director of Intel Labs China, Intel Principal Engineer. He led Intel’s corporate Technology Strategic Long Range Planning on Big Data, and focused the China Labs on three directions, 5G communications, smart computing and robotics.

WU Gansha

Cofounder, Chairman and CEO of UISEE Technologies

XU Min

Director of Automotive Engineering Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Beijing a distinguished professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), Prof. Xu’s research and development activities on high efficiency clean combustion system had won a world-wide recognition both in industry and academia. He serves as the member of editorial board of several international journals in spray and combustion field including “Proceedings of the Combustion Institute” and “Atomization and Sprays”. Based on his research on spray and combustion and his contribution to the automotive industry, he was elected as SAE fellow in 2009.

John Dinkel earned BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan and is an automotive industry expert with over 40 years’ experience. His areas of expertise include engineering, journalism, testing and analysis, product development, etc.

Dinkel was Editor of Road & Track, is author of the Road & Track Illustrated Automotive Dictionary and has written three books on Mazda and a comprehensive history of Toyota. Dinkel is also a regular contributor to the SAE’s Automotive Engineering magazine and a variety of automotive magazines and websites.

President, John Dinkel & Associates Automotive Consulting and Communications

John DINKEL

Xuanyuan Award Executive Committee

Xuanyuan Award Jury

Xuanyuan Award Design Advisory Board

CHANG Bing

Vice President and General Manager of Design Centre of Zhejiang Hozon Auto

Chief Designer of Dongfeng Tech Center

ZHENG Sulin

Deputy Director of GAC Engineering Institue and Director of GAC Concept and Design Center

ZHANG Fan

President and CEO of CSG Design and Kaiyun Motors

WANG Chao

Deputy Designer of SAIC Technology Center and Global Design Director

SHAO Jingfeng

Vice President of BAIC Research Institute

SHAN Wei

Senior Automotive Designer

LU Di

Design Director of Didi Automotive Product Planning and Mobile Travel

FENG Chao

Executive Vice President of Changan Automotive Design Institute

CHEN Zheng

President of Evergrande New Energy Vehicle Group Design Institiute

CHEN Qunyi

Xuanyuan Award Design Advisory Board consists of leading automotive designers from Chinese OEMs and professional design companies, 10 in total;

Founder of Lookartv

HE Xingyan

HE Lei

CEO of Xinchuxing

GUO Dengli

Founder of Qianchengshuzhi

CHEN Hao

Deputy Chief Editor of Bitauto, Chief Editor of Autoreport

FU Jiren

Vice President of Zhihu

FAN Xin

Chief Editor of Autohome

DUAN Xu

Founder and Chief Editor of Automotive Life Media Cluster

DU Wei

General Manager and Chief Editor of Yidianzixun Auto Business

Xuanyuan Award Media Advisory Board consists of senior journalists from famous Chinese automotive media companies or We media, 30 in total;

Xuanyuan Award Media Advisory Board

HU Jinnan

General Manager of IFeng Auto

LI San

Senior Vice President of Internet Info Agency

LIANG Yi

General Manager of Auto Xinhuanet

LIU Baohua

Chief Editor of Auto Business Review

Deputy Media Editor of Auto Circle

LU Shan

SUN Yong

Senior Auto Critic, CEO of Knowhowedu

WANG Chao

Director of Auto Development of China Youth Daily

WANG Qiufeng

General Manager of Tencent Auto

WANG Zheng

Deputy Editor of Industrial Interview Room, Ministry of Economy and Society of People's Daily

Chief Editor of iautodaily and Qichegongshe

WEI Jinqiao

WU Mo

General Manager of Auto Sina

XIANG Rui

Vice President of Oceanengine business development

XU Chenhua

Founder of Youcheyihou

XU Feng

Founder of idailycar

Deputy Chief Editor of Sohu and General Manager of Auto Sohu

YAN Cheng

YANG Bin

Founder of Cheyiquan

YU Hu

Founder of Hugeshuoche Platform

ZHANG Hong

Founder of RA and RA EV

ZHANG Jie

Chief Editor of Qichang

Deputy Chief Editor of NetEase

ZHANG Qi

ZHANG Yaodong

Founder of QCTT

ZHOU Guangjun

Chief Editor of Auto-First

Xuanyuan Award Tech Advisory Board

Xuanyuan Award Tech Advisory Board consists of top managers from leading automotive suppliers in China and abroad, 10 in total;

ZHU Wei

General Manager of Passenger Vehicle Development of CATL China

ZHUANG Zhiqiang

Executive Vice President of Toyota-Boshoku China

CHEN Yudong

President of BOSCH China

CHEN Binbo

Executive President of Minth Group

JIANG Yongwei

Vice President of FAURECIA China

LU Kejian

President of Visteon Group China

YANG Xiaoming

President of Aptiv Asia-Pacific

GU Jianmin

CTO of Valeo China

XU Jun

Vice President and General Manager of Harman China

CHANG Jing

Global Vice President and Asia General Manager of Sensata Technologies

Head of Design at Italdesign

Carsten Monnerjan

Honorary Jury President

HE Guangyuan

Former Minister of State Machinery Industry

Jury President

Truls THORSTENSEN

President of EFS Consulting

Executive Committee Director

Jack YU

Chief Editor of Auto Business Review, CO-Founder of Autosquare Vehicle APP

Member of the Xuanyuan Award Jury in 2014. Has almost 30 years of experience in the automotive design industry. He held design position at GM, BMW and Mazda. When he was the Chief Designer of Mazda, he designed the world-famous Mazda MX-5 and RX-7.

Executive director of the School of Industrial Design, San Francisco Academy of Art

Tsutomu Matano

Member of the Xuanyuan Award Jury from 2014-2017. Studied mechanical Engineering in Hamburg. After his graduation he started his career at EDAG, where he managed several divisions like simulation and product development. From 2008-2013 he was Managing Director and CEO of EDAG. Since January 2014 he is vice chairman and CTO of EDAG Engineering AG. After leaving EDAG in 2018, he is now the Managing Director at ESG Elektroniksystem- und Logistik-GmbH.

Former CEO of EDAG

Jörg Ohlsen

Xuanyuan Award Honorary Jury Member

Xuanyuan Award honorary jury members are former members of the jury who have greatly contributed to the Xuanyuan Award, and cannot continue their obligation due to work reasons.

Inryul Suh

Former Director of Autron, the electronics subsidiary of Hyundai Motors

Member of the Xuanyuan Award Jury from 2014-2018. Suh is the former Director (retired in 08/2013) of Autron, the electronics subsidiary of Hyundai Motors. During his tenure he presided over a number of B2B initiatives such as the E-Procurement for Hyundai and Kia. He has rich expertise in developing domestic suppliers.

Greg Anderson

Automotive consultant & Specialized Writer

Member of the first Xuanyuan Award Jury in 2014. Greg Anderson is an author and consultant. He has been living or either traveling to China for nearly two decades. In 2012 he published the book "Designated Drivers: How China Plans to Dominate the Global Auto Industry". He holds a Ph. D. in political science from the University of California.

Atzuhiko Yamada

Design Director of Changan Auto

Member of the Xuanyuan Award Jury in 2015. Over 30 years’ experience in automotive design field. Former chief designer and manager of the Advance Design Group in Mazda’s design division in Yokohama, Japan. He has had lead involvement in the design development of the Mazda2, Mazda6, and CX-9 projects. In 2018, he joined Changan Automotive as the Director of Passenger Car Design.

Sam Livingstone

Senior Tutor in Vehicle Design at the Royal College of Art in London

Member of the Xuanyuan Award Jury in 2016. Senior Tutor in Vehicle Design at the Royal College of Art (www.rca.ac.uk) in London for over ten years and has delivered lectures in several other academic institutions including Art Centre in Pasadena and Hongik in Seoul. He is a juror on the World Car of The Year Design Award, Transport Design Judge for the iF Design Awards, has presented at numerous conferences around the world.

YU Zhonggao

Deputy Chief Engineer of the NAST (Xiangyang). He has won the second prize of the Automobile Industry Science and Technology Progress Award, the second prize of Hubei Province Science and Technology Progress Award, and the special prize of Dongfeng Science and Technology Progress Award. He has been engaged in testing, evaluation, and benchmarking for a long time, and has accumulated a lot of experience in passive safety and road testing; and has 40+ units/year experience in vehicle evaluation; practiced a lot of vehicle structure knowledge in competitive product benchmarking, and mastered some traceability methods from evaluation phenomena to structure principles; at the same time participated in business user research, model development process, performance setting control, etc.

Deputy Chief Engineer of the NAST (Xiangyang)