Born in 1969, Li Ruigang has been president of Shanghai Media Group (SMG), a multimedia conglomerate in Shanghai, China, since October 2002 and was the assistant president of its parent company, Shanghai Media and Entertainment Group, from April to October 2002. Mr. Li also is the chairman of the board of directors of several subsidiaries of Shanghai Media Group, including SUM, a joint venture with Universal Music Group, and Oriental CJ, a TV home shopping joint venture with CJ Group Korea.

Under Mr. Li's leadership, SMG has become one of the most important Chinese-language multimedia operators and content providers/distributors, operating two satellite TV channels, four terrestrial TV channels, seven cable channels, 11 radio services and 30 digital pay-TV channels. SMG also runs a national daily financial newspaper, China Business News.

Prior to his current role, Mr. Li was a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York (Summer 2001-April 2002) and before that he worked for the Shanghai Municipal Government. He began his career in broadcast journalism as a reporter, then producer at Shanghai TV Station. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from Fudan University in Shanghai.