<p>1993, Master in Economics, Peking University;</p> <p>2006, MBA, Judge Business School, Cambridge University;</p> <p>1993-1998, Portfolio Manager, Treasury Division, International Department, People’s Bank of China;</p> <p>1998-1999, Executive Department, People's Bank of China;</p> <p>1999-2000, Deputy Director, Executive Director Office, China Everbright Group, Hong Kong;</p> <p>2000-2003, Assistant General Manager, Executive Office, Bank of China;</p> <p>With China Banking Regulatory Commission;</p> <p>2003-2004, Director, Executive Department;</p> <p>2004-2006, Deputy Director-General, Executive Department;</p> <p>2007-2011, Director-General, Executive Department;</p> <p>2011-2016, Director-General, Shanghai Office;</p> <p>2016-2018, Director-General, International Economic Department, Office of the Central Leading Group for Financial and Economic Affairs;</p> <p>March-May 2018, Director-General, International Economic Department, Office of the Central Commission for Finance and Economy;</p> <p>May 2018-September 2023, Vice Minister of Office of the Central Commission for Finance and Economy and Vice Minister of Finance;</p> <p>Since September 2023, Vice Minister of Finance.</p>

<p>Ahmed Kouchouk was appointed Vice Minister of Finance for Fiscal Policies and institutional Reform in March 2016. Since then, he has been playing a leading role in designing and implementing Egypt’s macroeconomic and fiscal policies and reforms. Mr. Kouchouk has been the chief negotiator and Government focal point with the IMF since 2016.</p> <p>Ahmed Kouchouk currently supervises and oversees the work of various policy-related units and departments at the Ministry of Finance including the Macro Fiscal Unit, the Debt Management Unit, the Public Private Partnership Unit, the Transparency, and Citizen Engagement Unit, the Public Financial Management Unit, and the Institutional reform unit. He also supervises various work streams at the Ministry of Finance including engagement with international institutions, Rating agencies, Investment Banks, and investors. He also oversees the process of setting and updating the Macro Fiscal Framework including setting fiscal &amp; debt targets over the medium‐term, preparing the annual budget, monitoring budget implementation, managing fiscal risks, and overseeing debt strategy and related policies.</p> <p>Ahmed Kouchouk serves as Egypt's non-resident executive director at the Asian International Infrastructure Bank Board (AIIB) for the past 7-years. Also, he leads Egypt’s inter‐ministerial task force managing the annual economic dialogue with the EU. Ahmed Kouchouk is currently a board member at the Monetary-Fiscal Coordination Council, the Arab African Investment Bank, Talaat Mostafa Holding, Egypt National Training Academy, National Defense Council, Heliopolis for Housing Development Company, Electricity Utility and Consumer Protection Regulatory Body, Misr Phosphate Company, the Egyptian Central Depository and Registry Company, and Urban Development Economic Authority.</p> <p>Ahmed Kouchouk has been the Ministry of Finance focal coordinator with monetary authorities since 2016. He served as a Board Member at the Central Bank of Egypt from April 2016 to June 2018. He also served as a board member at Egypt Air Holding Company from 2018-2020 and at Misr Fertilizers Production Company (MOPCO) from 2021- April 2022. Mr. Kouchouk served as a board member in several other institutions over the past years.</p> <p>Ahmed Kouchouk is a professional economist and policy advisor with almost 25 years of applied experience. He worked as a senior economist for the World Bank from June 2013 to March 2016. Furthermore, he worked for the Ministry of Finance in several leading roles for more than 14 years including as Vice Minister, Economic Advisor, and Director of the Macro Fiscal Unit. He also worked for Egypt's Ministries of External Trade and Economy.</p> <p>Ahmed Kouchouk earned his master’s degree in public policy from Harvard Kennedy School of Government in 2010 and earned a master’s degree in economics from York University in the United Kingdom in 2002. He had a B.S., in Economics in 1999 from the American University in Cairo.</p> <p>Mr. Kouchouk is married to Amal El‐Sayed (Banker and executive coach). They have two kids Salma (17 years) and Omar (15 years).</p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>Manuela Ferro was appointed World Bank Vice President for East Asia and Pacific in September 2021. She manages World Bank relations with 26 countries, over 1,000 staff, and a portfolio totaling around US$35 billion. In Fiscal Year 2023, she oversaw US$7.6 billion in new financial commitments for 41 operations in the region.</p> <p>Manuela Ferro has over three decades of experience in development and held several leadership positions in the World Bank, including most recently as Vice President of Operations Policy and Country Services, in which she played a key role in the World Bank’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. She had leadership roles in Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North Africa. She also worked on South Asia and Africa earlier in her career.</p> <p>A Portuguese national, she holds an MSc./Engineering Degree from the Technical University of Lisbon and a Ph.D. in Applied Economics from Stanford University in California.</p>

<p>Mr. Zhongjing Wang is the inaugural Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Multilateral Cooperation Center for Development Finance (MCDF). Before being appointed as CEO, he served as Head of the Interim Secretariat tasked with establishing the multilateral finance facility. Mr. Wang is a global leader and advocate for high quality connectivity infrastructure with a relentless focus on diversity, transparency, equality, innovation, and collaboration.</p> <p>Prior to joining the MCDF, Zhongjing served as the Director-General of the Center for Evaluation of the World Bank Loan Projects in the Chinese Ministry of Finance leading the cooperation between China and multilateral financial institutions and bilateral development partners with an annual lending portfolio of roughly $7 billion. He has served on the Board of multiple international organizations and financial mechanisms, including the Asian Development Bank, the New Development Bank, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, and Adaptation Fund. He was a council member of the Global Environmental Facility, Global Infrastructure Facility, and the Women Entrepreneurship Finance Initiative. Mr. Wang holds an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School, a Certificate of International Tax Program from Harvard Law School and an LL.B from Peking University.</p>

<p>Ede Ijjasz provides strategic advice on sustainability and ESG standards, environmental and social safeguards, and climate change. Mr. Ijjasz is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and he advices several institutions such as ADB, the Global Center on Adaptation, The Growth Dialogue, UNDP, WMO, the World Bank and the World Resources Institute, among others.</p> <p>He was a senior leader on sustainable development and infrastructure at the World Bank. During his career of more than 23 years at the World Bank, he managed a team of 700 staff and more than 1000 consultants working in more than 90 developing and emerging countries in all regions of the world – from fragile and conflict-affected countries to high-middle-income countries. He was responsible for a portfolio of about $80 billion of investments and close to 800 policy and advisory reports. Mr. Ijjasz was Regional Director for Sustainable Development and Infrastructure for Africa and Latin America, Global Senior Director for the Social, Urban, Rural, and Resilience Technical Practice, and Manager of the China Sustainable Development and Infrastructure Program.</p> <p>He recently completed co-editing the book “State and Trends in Adaptation in Africa,” and is working on two other books: “Disruptive Technologies for Sustainable Development” and “Knowledge Management and Organizational Change” to be published by Routledge in 2022. Mr. Ijjasz has been featured in several global media outlets such as CNN, Wall St. Journal, Time, The Economist, LA Times, and CNBC. He has been a lecturer at Tsinghua University and Johns Hopkins University on Sustainable Development courses.</p>

<p>Dr. Li Fang is Country Director of WRI China, in charge of the overall strategy and management of WRI’s work in China. With a rich combination of vision, academic rigor, deep knowledge of the environment and development, broad management experience, and an extensive network of professional contacts, she works closely with colleagues and partners to advance sustainable development both locally and globally.</p> <p>Prior joining WRI, Dr. Fang was the Deputy Director General of Foreign Economic Cooperation Office of the Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment, where she led diverse multidisciplinary teams working on a wide range of environmental issues, overseeing more than 100 staff. She also served as the Assistant Secretary General of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED), a unique high-level think tank that brings together top Chinese and foreign experts and provides research and policy recommendations to the Chinese government. There she was responsible for developing strategy and research frameworks, mobilizing resources, and coordinating the joint activities of participating countries, international organizations, NGOs and governmental agencies.</p> <p>Her other previous positions included serving as Division Director in the International Cooperation Department of the Environment Ministry of China and working in Ecuador as for a Chinese-foreign mining joint venture.</p> <p>Dr. Fang earned a Ph.D. in environmental economics from China’s renowned Renmin University with a focus on finance, valuation of nature, and emissions trading. She holds two BA degrees from Tianjin University in chemical engineering and business management.</p>

<p>Ms. Teravaninthorn is Special Advisor to the Vice President of Investment Operations Region 2. Apart from advising the Vice President on some complex operation issues, her focus is on the AIIB planned operations in Non-regional Members, i.e., African and Latin American members.</p> <p>Prior to this position, she leads the Infrastructure Investment Department (Region 2) as Director General. When she was Director General, she was responsible for building up the institutional capacity in investment operations and ensuring the strength and sustainability of overall investment operations. This work ranges from business development to building a well-balanced and diversified investment portfolio, in terms of both quantity and quality. She also managed the effective utilization of investment operations resources in line with the mission and vision of AIIB. Prior to joining AIIB in June 2016, she served in the management team of the World Bank from 2011 to 2016. Her experience in infrastructure planning and development in East Asia, Southeast Asia and Africa is long and well-established. She holds a PhD in economics from Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Japan. Teravaninthorn is from Thailand.</p>

<p>Dr. Chen is Director (Central and West Asia, East Asia, and the Pacific) of ADB’s Transport Sector Office. He has 24 years of professional experience in transport sector and international development. He joined ADB as a transport specialist in 2007 and worked in the organization’s Pacific and South Asia departments. In 2017, he became the Senior Advisor to the Vice-President (Operations 1) and led quality management on strategies, business plans, projects, and technical assistance in 16 developing countries in Central and West Asia and South Asia. Most recently Mr. Chen served as ADB’s Country Director for Sri Lanka from 2020 to 2023.</p> <p>Mr. Chen holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in the United States; a master’s degree from South China University of Technology; and a bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University in the People’s Republic of China. He has authored sixteen publications on transport asset management, climate change, and public–private partnership, including three in peer-reviewed journals. Mr. Chen is a national of People’s Republic of China.</p>

<p>Joonkyung Seong has over 15 years of experience in sustainable energy and finance across private sector and multilateral institutions. He is Acting Program Leader for Infrastructure for China/Mongolia/Korea and Senior Energy Specialist of the World Bank, based in Beijing, China, managing the Bank's energy and transport sector programs in China and Mongolia and leading regional energy transition engagement in the East Asia and Pacific. He has extensive experience in developing renewable energy and energy efficiency projects, coordinating multilateral climate finance programs, and structuring blended finance operations using concessional climate finance. Before joining the Bank, he worked in the insurance sector, developing risk financing instruments such as insurance and guarantee and managing infrastructure project finance through public-private partnership. He holds a bachelor’s degree in applied statistics from Yonsei University and a master’s degree in international economics and international relations from Johns Hopkins University. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a certified Energy Risk Professional (ERP).</p>

<p>Mr. Spencer manages the team responsible for supporting MCDF’s Collaboration Platform. He oversees the work of the Secretariat on investment matching and sharing knowledge and information about standards and best practices, in close collaboration with the participants of the Platform. He is also developing the medium to long-term strategy of the Platform.</p> <p>Strahan is a development economist with over 20 years’ experience in economic development and infrastructure. He has worked in China, Nepal, India, Kenya, Rwanda, Iraq and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Prior to joining the MCDF, he was Economic Development Team Leader and Senior Economic Adviser at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) of the UK Government, based in Beijing. Prior to this he was the Senior Responsible Owner of the Accelerating Investment and Infrastructure in Nepal programme for the UK Department for International Development (DFID).</p> <p>Strahan is a national of the UK. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in political, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University, and a Master’s degree in Development Economics from the University of East Anglia School of International Development.</p>