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Anna is a principal analyst and manager in the connected car & vehicle experience team at S&P Global Mobility.

Since joining the company in November 2006, Anna has developed and headed the Infotainment focus area. Now her research focuses on connectivity and vehicle experience topics mainly for the North American market.

In addition, Anna manages a team of analysts that focus on the hardware aspects of the connected car and user interfaces. Anna has led and contributed to numerous projects that include detailed analysis of in-vehicle head unit systems, acoustic systems as well as telematics solutions for a number of international OEM and supplier companies to support critical decisions that shape the automotive and transportation business landscape.

Daokuan Lu joined S&P Global Mobility autonomy team in February 2022 as a senior Research Analyst, base in Shanghai. He is responsible for supporting to maintain and enhance autonomy forecast in China.

Prior to joining S&P Global Mobility, Daokuan worked as a powertrain engineer in a leading automotive engineering consultant company and his clients include several premier automotive groups and supercar maker.

Daokuan hold the master degree in field of automotive engineering from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany and the bachelor degree from Tianjin University in China.

Fanni Li is Principal Research Analyst for Connected Car with S&P Global Mobility.

Ms. Li specializes in the areas of digital cockpit, connected car, digital services strategy and roadmap. She has extensive experience in providing features and hardware benchmark, connected car strategy to automotive OEMs, as well as providing technology and supply chain analysis to tech companies and automotive suppliers. Complementary research includes topics from OEM strategy, digital cockpit hardware and features benchmark, supply chain analysis and consumer adoption of features and services.

Her responsibilities include research and analysis of digital cockpit and connected car in China as well as global lead of over the air update and connected services market analysis.

Fanni Li has 10 years working experience in automotive industry with engineering background. Prior to joining S&P Global Mobility, she worked for global European automotive group for several years focusing on project management and product development of infotainment domain products.

Fanni Li holds a Master of Engineering in Mechatronic System from the University of Technology of Compiegne in France, along with a Master of Business Administration from the University of Canberra.

Quan Zhang is a senior Connected Car and Vehicle Experience research analyst within S&P Global Mobility. His responsibilities include research and analysis of in-cockpit components and technologies in China market such as Displays, Voice Control, Acoustic as well as other methods that users interact with the vehicle.

He has more than 5 years of automotive working experience with an engineering background. Prior to S&P Global Mobility, he worked for leading global OEMs and a joint venture in China, focusing on infotainment development and project management of online services-related products.

Quan Zhang graduated from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences with a master’s degree in Mechatronic Engineering.