Liqun Jin
 

LIQUN JIN was appointed vice president, Operations Group 1, ADB, in August 2003. He has years of experience in the People's Republic of China's (PRC) Ministry of Finance, where he held several important posts, including director general of the World Bank Department in 1995, and then assistant minister of finance, until his appointment as vice minister of finance in 1998. He was alternate executive director for the PRC at the World Bank Group in 1989-1992, and was involved in policy discussions on the World Bank's development programs and deliberations on investment and structural adjustment loans for borrowing member countries. He graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University, with a master's degree in English literature in 1980. He was a Hubert Humphrey Fellow in the Economics Graduate Program at Boston University, USA, in 1987-1988.