Jin Liqun
| Jin Liqun 金立群 |
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| President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank | |
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Assumed office 16 January 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Position established |
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| Born | August 1949 (age 67) Changshu, China |
| Alma mater | Beijing Foreign Studies University |
Jin Liqun (Chinese: 金立群; born August 1949) is a Chinese politician, banker, and professor. He is currently the President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). He was formerly the Chairman of China International Capital Corporation, the Vice President of the Asian Development Bank, and the Vice Minister of Finance of the People's Republic of China.
Jin was born in Changshu, Jiangsu. He studied high school in Jiangyin but could not complete his education to Bachelor's degree level because of China's Cultural Revolution. As a teenager he briefly joined the Red Guards and from 1968 was sent to work in the countryside to grow rice. For three years he did this agricultural work and still continued to study by himself, which led to an appointment as teacher in a local middle school. In 1978 the universities reopened and he entered Beijing Foreign Studies University's Master program, graduating with a Master of Arts in English in 1980. He was later a Hubert Humphrey Fellow in the Economics Graduate Program at Boston University from 1987 to 1988. He is fluent in both English and French.
In 1980 Mr. Jin joined the Chinese Ministry of Finance office at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., later becoming Director General of the World Bank Department, and Alternative Executive Director of China to the World Bank Group. He became Vice Minister in 1998. He was a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People’s Bank of China.
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