From Wikipedia (here):
Jin Liqun (金立群) (born 1949) is Chairman of Board of Supervisors of the sovereign wealth fund, China Investment Corporation, and its subsidiary Central Huijin Investment Ltd. He is also serving as deputy chair of the International Working Group of Sovereign Wealth Funds. He was formerly the Vice-President of the Asian Development Bank, and Vice Minister of Finance of the People's Republic of China.
Jin Liqun was Vice President (Operations 1) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Before joining the ADB in August 2003, he served as Vice Minister of Finance, Director General of the World Bank Department at the Ministry of Finance, and Alternative Executive Director of China to the World Bank Group. He was a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People’s Bank of China.
Jin holds a master’s degree from Beijing Foreign Studies University and was a Hubert Humphrey Fellow in the Economics Graduate Program at Boston University.
Jin's daughter is currently a Lecturer on Economics at the London School of Economics, and a graduate of Harvard University.
In this interview, Jin makes a case that China’s sovereign wealth fund makes its decisions only on the basis of economic, not political, considerations, that some of the European welfare states encourage idleness (or do not give enough incentives to work hard), that China is now at a stage where the rich need to contribute more in order to aid the poor more, and that developing countries should have more influence in international economic institutions.
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