A Dialogue with Jin Liqun, AIIB President

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Please join the inaugural session of the Distinguished Speakers Series (DSS) where Jin Liqun, President of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) will come to the AmCham Community Hub and give a keynote titled "Search for Sustainability: Global Cooperation in an Era of Rising Tensions."

This event is members exclusive and supported by China Business and Financial Services committees
Limited seats available for in person tickets
Dial in details will be sent to online participants closer to the event date
This event is closed to the media

About the Series

AmCham Distinguished Speakers Series (DSS) features world-renowned business and multilateral organization leaders to discuss global issues and their impact on Hong Kong

IMPORTANT : Revised Guest Policy Effective April 21, 2022

All guests must have a valid vaccine pass as required by the government to enter the Hub
Vaccine passes will be scanned at the door
All guests must sign in using the Leave Home Safe app for access to the event.
Guests should wear a mask at all times except when drinking

Speakers

Liqun Jin

President and Chair of the Board of Directors at AIIB

Eden Woon

President at AmCham Hong Kong

Jin is the inaugural President and Chair of the Board of Directors. On July 28, 2020, he was elected to serve a second term of five years, beginning on Jan. 16, 2021. Before being elected as the Bank’s first President, he served as Secretary-General of the Multilateral Interim Secretariat tasked with establishing the Bank. Jin has rich experience across the private and public sectors and with MDBs. He served as Chair of China International Capital Corporation Limited (China’s first joint-venture investment bank), Chair of the Supervisory Board of China Investment Corporation and Chair of the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds. He 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. Jin spent nearly two decades at the Chinese Ministry of Finance, reaching the rank of Vice Minister. He holds a master’s degree in English Literature from Beijing Institute of Foreign Languages (now Beijing Foreign Studies University) and was a Hubert Humphrey Fellow in the Economics Graduate Program at Boston University from 1987 to 1988. Jin is from the People’s Republic of China.

(Moderator)

Dr. Eden Woon is the President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, effective from September 1, 2022.

Dr. Woon is an experienced business and academic leader who has also served many years in government and NGOs, and is no stranger to the business community in the Greater China region and beyond, having spent his career in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Thailand, and USA.

Prior to joining AmCham HK, from 2018 to 2022, Dr. Woon was the President of Asian Institute of Technology, an international graduate engineering institute in Bangkok which focuses on sustainability. In 2017-2018, he was the Vice Chairman of Alba Group Asia, an environmental engineering company headquartered in Berlin. From 2010 until November 2017, Dr. Woon was
the Vice-President for Institutional Advancement of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. From 2006 to 2010, Dr. Woon was based in Shanghai, being the Managing Director of Li & Fung Group's China Corporate Office and Managing Director of Toys ”R” Us China. He has also been a Vice-President of Starbucks Coffee Company in China. In 1997-2006, Dr. Woon was the CEO of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce.

Dr. Woon was the Executive Director of the Seattle-based Washington State China Relations Council from 1994 to 1997. Dr. Woon served in the US Air Force until 1993 when he retired as a Colonel. He once acted as China policy advisor to the US Secretary of Defense and had a stint in Beijing. He also taught Mathematics at the US Air Force Academy for six years, reaching the title of Associate Professor.

Dr. Woon spent his childhood in Hong Kong and received his BA degree from the University of Iowa and his MA, MS, and PhD degrees, all in Mathematics, from the University of Washington in Seattle. He is also a graduate of the National War College in Washington, DC.

A U.S. citizen and fluent speaker of both Mandarin and Cantonese, Dr. Woon serves as Special Advisor to the Shaw Foundation of Hong Kong, as a Board member of the Hong Kong Ballet, and he is a Justice of Peace of Hong Kong. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

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Member (In-person)

Member PriceHKD 550

Member (Virtual)

Member PriceHKD 250

Non-member (In-Person)

Public PriceHKD 750

Non-member (Virtual)

Public PriceHKD 450

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