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Biography

Cao Yuanzheng, male, Han nationality, was born in 1954.

An economist and career academician, Cao has been a professor at Renmin University of China and Shanghai Jiaotong University. He was a guest professor at the University of Southern California and later was a researcher at the China Center for Economic Research at Beijing University.

Cao later served as an economist for the United Nations Development Program, Asian Development Bank, and the World Bank. He consulted on countries undergoing economic transformations, among them Vietnam, Mongolia, Czech Republic, and Kazakhstan. In addition to his economist responsibilities, Cao was a standing deputy president at the China Economy and System Reform Research Institute. His research focused on transformation economies and international finance.

He is a deputy executive president and chief economist at the Bank of China International Holdings Limited.

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