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The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), first opened in 2016, is a USD 100 billion multilateral development bank purpose-built to support infrastructure projects that enhance regional economic productivity. Initiated by China, its membership is global, with regional powers from Korea to Saudi Arabia, and key players from Europe, Africa, and Latin America. The United Nations has addressed the launch of AIIB as having potential for "scaling up financing for sustainable development."


Natalie Lichtenstein served as the lawyer for the negotiation and establishment of this new international organization and as its inaugural General Counsel till August 2016. She retired from a 30-year legal career at the World Bank, including lending operations in China and other countries and institutional governance issues and reforms. In her new book A Comparative Guide to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank published in March by Oxford University Press, Natalie Lichtenstein examines the Bank's mandate, investment operations, finance, governance, and institutional setup, as well as providing detailed analyses of the similarities and differences it has with other development banks - charting AIIB's story so far and anticipating its future.


AmCham China Financial Services Forum is very delighted to invite Natalie Lichtenstein to share her precious insights and experience to the business community. Interested in AIIB and its funded projects? Join us on May 31! Simple sandwiches and soft drinks will be provided.

Agenda

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Registration
12:00 PM - 12:05 PM
Opening Remarks
12:05 PM - 12:35 PM
A Guide to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Introduction and Discussion of AIIB, Comparisons and contrasts between AIIB and existing financial institutions
12:35 PM - 1:30 PM
Open Discussion and Q&A

Speakers

  • Gina Huang (Head of Government Relations at JP Morgan China)

    Gina Huang

    Head of Government Relations at JP Morgan China

    Ms. Huang joined JP Morgan China in May 2018, serving as Head of Government Relations. She started her career in financial services industry at New York City since 2004. In 2009, Ms. Huang came back to China, her motherland, and joined China Banking Regulatory Commission as Head of Derivative Supervision Division. In 2012, she was appointed as Head of Secondary Market Surveillance Dept. at National Association of Financial Market Institutional Investors. From 2014 to May 2018, Ms. Huang served as Beijing Branch Manager for Bank of New York Mellon.
    Ms. Huang earned her Bachelor’s degree from University of Science and Technology of China. She also holds a PHD from Columbia University, majoring in Operations Research.

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  • Natalie Lichtenstein

    Natalie Lichtenstein

    Natalie Lichtenstein is a US lawyer who has specialized in legal issues at international financial institutions and legal development in China since the 1970s. Following a 30-year legal career at the World Bank, she continues to teach and consult in these areas. From 2014-2016, she served first as the Chief Counsel for the establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and then as its inaugural General Counsel.
    Early on in her career, she was involved in legal aspects of US participation in international financial institutions as a lawyer at the US Treasury Department. She also worked on normalization of relations between the US and the People’s Republic of China.
    Joining the World Bank legal department in 1980, she advised on lending operations in China and other countries for most of the next 20 years. She served as Chief Counsel, East Asia in the 1990s. She was an early leader in legal technical assistance activities. From 1999-2010, she served in senior positions, specializing in the Bank’s institutional governance issues and reforms, legal opinions and Board governance. In her last assignment, she led the work on reforms to enhance voice and participation of developing countries in the World Bank Group.
    Retired in 2010, she continued to teach Law & Society in China at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC. She has also taught Chinese law at George Washington University Law School. Her consulting work for international organizations in China has included a review of the EU-UNDP Governance for Equitable Development Project and a report on Asian Development Bank’s Technical Assistance for Legal Development. She was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Duke-Kunshan University in May 2014.
    She is the author of A Comparative Guide to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (Oxford University Press, March 2018), and numerous articles in professional journals.
    Ms. Lichtenstein received her A.B. and J.D. degrees from Harvard University.

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