Career Biography

Mr. Guo Lidong, general counsel and chief compliance officer of Mengniu Group, is an exceptional leader with over two decades of dedicated service in the legal field. Drawing upon his profound academic foundation, he seamlessly integrates deep practical legal expertise with forward-thinking strategic management capabilities, serving as the driving force behind Mengniu’s continuous breakthroughs in legal risk management and compliance governance.

Under his leadership, Mengniu Group’s legal affairs department has evolved from a traditional support function into a value creator and risk guardian for the group’s strategic implementation and business expansion. Upholding the principle of ‘integration of business and law’, he has established a comprehensive legal compliance framework covering the entire value chain. This provides robust safeguards for Mengniu’s steady progress in complex and volatile global markets. His key contributions and core competencies manifest across the following strategic dimensions:

He not only established a world-class compliance and risk management framework but also spearheaded Mengniu’s dual certification for ISO 37301 and GB/T 35770 compliance management systems. This achievement made Mengniu the first enterprise in China’s dairy sector to attain ‘dual standard certification,’ setting an industry benchmark for compliance governance.

In the realm of legal shared services, he spearheaded profound model innovation and organisational transformation. This restructured the delivery model for legal services, creating a new-generation shared services centre integrating centralisation, standardisation, process optimisation, and productisation. This innovative model significantly enhanced the responsiveness and quality consistency of legal services, liberating the legal team from repetitive tasks to focus on high-value strategic issues. It provided the industry with a replicable model for modernising legal management, becoming a responsive legal think tank and centralised engine that precisely empowered Mengniu’s rapid business expansion.

In intellectual property, he spearheaded global trademark expansion and systematic framework development with forward-thinking vision. Establishing Mengniu’s IP management system, he led the team to recognition as one of ‘China’s Top 100 Enterprises for Overseas Trademark Applications’ and ‘China’s Top 50 Exemplary Trademark Protection Enterprises,’ fortifying the company’s brand value and international reputation with a robust moat.

During digital transformation, he demonstrated exceptional system architecture capabilities, proactively establishing an integrated collaborative governance and digital platform encompassing legal, compliance, risk, internal control, and audit functions. This innovative management logic dismantled traditional functional silos, focusing on ‘integrated governance logic’ to design a closed-loop risk control system spanning the entire business process. Through unified risk terminology and assessment standards, it achieved seamless data flow and collaborative responses across legal, regulatory, control, and audit functions. This approach realised ‘data-driven intelligence and intelligence-assisted strategy’, providing Mengniu with unprecedented risk control insights for operational decision-making.

In summary, Mr. Guo Lidong, through his exceptional strategic leadership, forward-looking industry vision and profound professional expertise, has not only achieved breakthroughs from zero to one in critical domains but has also redefined the value and standards of legal management within the dairy industry. He stands as a paragon embodying both managerial acumen and legal expertise.