Song Bing joined the Berggruen Institute in 2017 as a Senior Vice President of the Institute and the founding director of the Institute’s China Center. Prior to joining the Berggruen Institute, she was a senior executive with Goldman Sachs China for over a decade, and prior to Goldman, an experienced capital markets lawyer. Earlier in her career, she undertook academic and policy research and published in the areas of administrative law, competition law, and comparative procedural laws.

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

Ms. Song Bing has been dedicated to fostering deep integration and creative dialogue among frontier technologies, Eastern 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 practices.

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,” attempting to explore deeper connections between technology and civilization, thought and the future.

Bing is educated at Peking University, Oxford University and New York School of Law and is a New York-qualified attorney.