Chairman Wan Jifei

Mr. Wan Jifei was born in October 1948 in Dongping County, Shandong Province. He studied at the Department of political science and Administrative Management of the Peking University and graduated with a Master’s degree in laws. He has a professional qualification of Senior Economist.

Mr. Wan started working in January 1969, after which he worked successively as Deputy Secretarygeneral of the CPC Committee of Shunyi County, Beijing Municipality; Assistant Governor of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and concurrently Deputy Director General of Ningxia Foreign Trade and Economic Relations Commission; Deputy Director General of the Commission of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of Beijing Municipal Government. He served as Vice Minister of the Office for Special Economic Zones of the State Council in December 1995; Vice Minister of the Office for Restructuring the Economic Systems of the State Council in March 1998; Vice Chairman of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) and China Chamber of International Commerce (CCOIC) in February 2000 respectively. In May 2003, he was appointed as Chairman of CCPIT and CCOIC and has been as such since then.

Mr. Wan is concurrently Chairman of ICC China, Chairman of China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, Chairman of China International Maritime Arbitration Commission, Member and Deputy Director of Organizing Committee of World Expo 2010 Shanghai, Executive Director of Executive Committee of World Expo 2010 Shanghai.

E-mail: leader@ccpit.org