Summary
Wenlong Li is a multidisciplinary researcher and editor with 11 years of experience at the intersection of data protection, privacy, and digital regulation, currently serving as Associate Editor at International Data Privacy Law and Research Professor at Zhejiang University. His career spans industry research roles at ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent and academic positions at Edinburgh and Birmingham, blending hands-on technical understanding of distributed storage and computing with legal scholarship on information technology law. He co-founded a cross-border intellectual platform (WeThinker) and has a track record of translating complex technical-administrative issues (RTB, OBA, discriminatory advertising) into classroom debate and policy-relevant research. Wenlong’s PhD in Information Technology Law and long-standing collaborations with centres for data culture reflect a rare ability to bridge rigorous legal analysis with engineering-minded solutions for privacy and data governance. He is notable for moving fluidly between commercial privacy practice and academic critique, bringing practitioner insight to theoretical work and vice versa. Based in Hangzhou, he combines editorial leadership with active research collaboration across the UK and China.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Information Technology Law (Data Protection), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Information Technology Law (Data Protection) at The University of Edinburgh
LLM by Research (3 years) MSc Law and Journalism, LLM by Research (3 years) MSc Law and Journalism at China University of Political Science and Law
English, French, Chinese