Biography / 2026
A life composed across worlds
About
Alicia Dai
戴丽霞 · Lixia Dai · 艾栗莎
Alicia Dai is a Shanghai-based HR leader whose life moves between structure and expression: international work and private rituals, professional ambition and a visual world shaped by fashion, art, movement, and travel.
A professional life in motion
People,
culture, change.
Alicia studied law at Southeast University before beginning her career in human resources with Toshiba in Shanghai. In 2008, she moved to Melbourne—a geographical and personal shift that led to a master's degree in human resource management at the University of Melbourne and a five-year chapter within Monash University's HR organisation.
During those Melbourne years, Lixia Dai began using Alicia as her public English name; it appears in her public writing by 2009. The name remained as she returned to Shanghai in 2015, first leading HR at Migu Music and later continuing her leadership path with Trip.com Group's Trip.Biz. On Chinese social platforms, she also publishes as 艾栗莎—the name attached to her visual diary.
Across industries and cities, the connecting subject has remained people: how they grow, how cultures are built, and how change can become possibility.
- Law / Southeast University
- Human resources / Toshiba, Shanghai
- Master of Human Resource Management / Melbourne
- Human resources / Monash University, Melbourne
- HR Director / Migu Music, Shanghai
- HR leadership / Trip.com Group · Trip.Biz
02 / Beyond the title
A visual world,
distinctly her own.
Work is one architecture of Alicia's life, but never the entire view. Her photographs form another: clothes chosen with instinct, exhibition rooms entered with curiosity, hotel interiors and city streets remembered through colour, and movement used as a way of returning to the present.
Running, fashion, contemporary art, interiors, jewellery, and travel recur throughout her personal archive. Shanghai provides its urban rhythm; Melbourne, Iceland, Japan, and journeys through China widen the frame. The result is not a catalogue of destinations, but an evolving record of how she notices.
As a mother of two and a senior professional, Alicia also writes about education, women's growth, and the effort to preserve a self beyond any single role. Ambition and softness are allowed to coexist. So are responsibility, pleasure, discipline, and style.
The world
in frame.
An open-ended biography
Still becoming.
Still in motion.
This website brings Alicia's public worlds into one place. It is neither a corporate profile nor a finished retrospective. Instead, it is a living portrait of a woman moving through work, family, cities, images, and ideas with an eye for what deserves to be remembered.
