Johannes Zhou Yuan

Biography

 Johannes Zhou Yuan, 61, has joined the Board as an Independent Non-executive Director since 17 May 2017. He retired in June 2016 as Chief Strategic Officer of China Investment Corporation (‘CIC’). Mr Zhou joined CIC in 2008 and held a variety of portfolios of responsibilities including alternative assets, direct investments, asset allocation, and finance/treasury.  Prior to that, he led Asia business development at Chicago Mercantile Exchange. From 2001 to 2005, Mr Zhou worked as a financial researcher and consultant, working on assignments ranging in asset management, private equity, hedge funds, risk models, financial software architecture, and financial market reform, with consulting work done for China Securities Regulatory Commission, Shanghai Futures Exchange, as well as a number of western firms. From 1998 to 2001, he was chief executive officer of HKFE Clearing Corporation Limited and concurrently chief financial officer of Hong Kong Futures Exchange Limited, responsible for the Exchanges's finance, treasury, risk and clearing functions. Mr Zhou was UBS AG's China country head from 1994 to 1998, responsible for the bank's investment banking, commercial banking, asset management and private banking businesses in China. From 1988 to 1994, he worked at State Street Bank in Boston where he founded and managed the research department. Prior to that, Mr Zhou taught at Brandeis University, United States of America. He was educated at Peking University, the Mainland of China and Brandeis University, United States of America.   

Research Interest

 Civil Engineering