Grace Shao is an independent analyst and writer focused on the business strategy of AI and technology, with an emphasis on Asia-Pacific and especially China. She examines how commercial incentives, corporate strategies, and investment dynamics in China’s AI sector interact with global markets and emerging governance frameworks.

After covering technology across Asia and working with major tech companies, she founded AI Proem, a research platform reaching readers in big tech, startups, investors, policy analysts, and think tanks. Her work explores the strategic implications of China’s AI development for the global business landscape and the practical realities that effective governance must address.

Her analysis has been cited by Bloomberg, Fortune, Time, Reuters, and SCMP, and she regularly speaks at industry and institutional forums and gives guest lectures at Tsinghua, Peking University, and Hong Kong universities.

Bridging China and Western perspectives has long shaped her work. With a background in finance, Chinese economics, and journalism, she focuses on making the commercial and strategic realities of AI legible to policymakers and institutions.