Jinsong Ding is the chairman of Shanghai HiTime Real Estate (aka Haitai Real Estate) Group, a real estate development and management company which he founded in 2001 on the shoulders of the Shanghai Haitai Steel Tube Group, a company that he built in the 1990s. An active volunteer in civic activities, Ding serves as vice chairman both of the Shanghai Federation of Industry Commerce and of an anti-poverty NGO known as the Shanghai Guangcai Program. In addition to the NYU Board of Trustees, he is a member of the NYU President’s Global Council.