J. Christopher Westland is Professor in the Department of Information & Decision Sciences at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He has professional experience in the US, as a certified public accountant and as a consultant in technology law in the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia. He is the author of numerous academic papers and of seven books: Global Electronic Commerce (MIT Press 2000); Global Innovation Management (Palgrave Macmillan 2nd ed 2017); Red Wired: China's Internet Revolution (Marshall Cavendish, 2010); Structural Equation Modeling (Springer 2015); Financial Dynamics (Wiley 2003); Valuing Technology (Wiley 2002) and Audit Analytics: Data Science for the Accounting Profession (Springer 2020). He is the Editor-in-Chief of Electronic Commerce Research (Springer) and have served on editorial boards of several other information technology journals including Management Science, ISR, ECRA, IJEC, and others. In 2012, he received High-Level Foreign Expert status in China under the 1000- Talents Plan and am currently Overseas Chair Professor at Beihang University. He advises on patent, valuation, and technology strategy for numerous technology firms.