Robin Li Yanhong

Robin Li Yanhong is a Chinese software engineer and billionaire Internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of the Baidu search engine. As of March 2022, his fortune was estimated at $8.5 billion. Li studied information management at Peking University and computer science at the University at Buffalo. In 1996, he created RankDex, the first Internet search engine with algorithms for ranking pages and evaluating sites. In 2000, he founded Baidu together with Eric Xu. Lee has been CEO of Baidu since January 2004. The company was listed on NASDAQ on August 5, 2005. In August 2014, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed Lee as co-chair of the Independent Expert Advisory Group on the Information Revolution for Sustainable Development. Li is a member of the 12th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.