Jin elected second term as President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Jin Liqun was recently elected to a second term as President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) by the Bank’s Board of Governors.
The election result was announced by the Chair of AIIB’s Board of Governors.
President Jin’s second five-year term will begin January 16, 2021.
About Mr Jin
Mr Jin is the inaugural President and Chairman of the Board of Directors. Before being elected as the Bank’s first president, he served as SecretaryGeneral of the Multilateral Interim Secretariat tasked with establishing the Bank.
He has has rich experience across the private and public sectors, as well as with MDBs.
He served as Chairman of China International Capital Corporation Limited, China’s first joint-venture investment bank, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of China Investment Corporation, and as Chairman of the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds.
Mr Jin previously served as Vice President, and then Ranking Vice President, of the Asian Development Bank, and as Alternate Executive Director for China at the World Bank and at the Global Environment Facility.
He spent nearly two decades at the Chinese Ministry of Finance, reaching the rank of Vice Minister.
Mr Jin holds an M. A. degree in English Literature from Beijing Institute of Foreign Languages (now Beijing Foreign Studies University).
He was also a Hubert Humphrey Fellow in the Economics Graduate Program at Boston University from 1987 to 1988.
He is a national of the People’s Republic of China.
2021 meeting
Meanwhile AIIB’s will host the 2021 annual meeting in the UAE, during EXPO Dubai.
The event is set to draw the participation of delegates from over 100 countries worldwide.