Ms. Song Bing joined the Berggruen Institute in 2017 as Senior Vice President of the Institute and the founding director of the Institute’s China Center. Prior to that, she was a senior executive with Goldman Sachs China for over a decade, and earlier in her career, she practiced as a capital markets lawyer. Ms. Song began her professional life in academic and policy research, with publications in administrative law, competition law, and comparative procedural laws. She was educated at Peking University, the University of Oxford and New York University School of Law.

In 2024, she co-edited Gongsheng Across Contexts – A Philosophy of Co-Becoming (Macmillan Palgrave), which explores the philosophical foundations of gongsheng, a worldview deeply rooted in East Asian cultures, and its implications for global ethics. Her 2021 edited volume Wisdom and Intelligence – Artificial Intelligence Meets Chinese Philosophers, published in 2021 (Spinger), marked the first systematic effort by Chinese philosophers to reflect upon challenges and opportunities posed by emerging technologies.

Ms. Song has been committed to fostering deep integration and creative dialogue among frontier technologies, philosophies, and artistic practice. She has led numerous innovative initiatives at the Berggruen Institute at the intersection of these fields, while building and sustaining a cross-disciplinary network of thinkers and practitioners spanning the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, literature, the arts and spiritual traditions.

She has also published essays exploring themes of artificial intelligence and Chinese philosophy, wisdom education in the age of AI, and the Eastern gongsheng (co-becoming) worldview and planetary thinking, in an ongoing effort to explore deeper connections among technology, philosophy and plural futures.