Jin Liqun Biography

Mr. JIN Liqun is Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of China Investment Corporation (CIC).

Before joining CIC, he served as Ranking Vice President, Asian Development Bank (ADB), responsible for operations in the South Asia, the Central and West Asia and the Private Sector Operations Department which covers all of ADB’s borrowing members. Prior to joining ADB, Mr. Jin was Vice Minister, the Ministry of Finance, the People’s Republic of China (PRC). In that capacity, he served as Alternate Governor for the PRC at ADB, the World Bank Group, and the Global Environment Facility. He worked on a number of bilateral and multilateral economic and financial forums, such as the China-US Joint Economic Committee, China-UK Economic and Finance Dialogue, APEC Finance Ministers’ Meeting, ASEAN Plus Three, and G-20. During his term of service as Vice Minister, Mr. Jin was a member of the State Monetary Policy Committee and the Anti-Terrorism Committee of the PRC.

After serving as Alternative Executive Director at the World Bank Group for four years, Mr. Jin was appointed Director General of the World Bank Department of the Ministry of Finance in 1995. The same year, he was promoted to be Assistant Minister of Finance and in 1998 was appointed Vice Minister of Finance. He joined the Ministry of Finance in 1980, after completing his graduate program at Beijing Institute of Foreign Languages (now Beijing Foreign Studies University). He writes extensively on economics and finance, and has published a number of books in these areas. Mr. Jin holds a master’s in English Literature from Beijing Foreign Studies University. He was also a Hubert Humphrey Fellow for graduate program in economics at Boston University from 1987 to 1988.