Lou Jiwei

Lou Jiwei (; born December 1950), is a Chinese politician, and current director of the 13th CPPCC Foreign Affairs Committee. Lou was Chairman of China's National Council for Social Security Fund, Minister for Finance, Chairman of China Investment Corporation and Central Huijin Investment, Vice Minister of Finance of China and Vice-Governor of Guizhou.

Biography Lou Jiwei was born in December 1950, is from Yiwu, Zhejiang, and holds a master's degree in economics. He started working in February 1968, joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in January 1973, and graduated from the Institute of Quantitative and Technological Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences with a major in economic system analysis in December 1984. He is considered outspoken. As Finance Minister, and with prior sovereign fund experience as the chair of China Investment Corporation and its former CEO, Lou was tasked with developing this proposal and served as lead author for the State Council's "Opinions on Reforming and Improving the State-Owned Assets Management System." ) August 1988 – September 1988: Director, Cost Price Group, Institute of Finance and Trade Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences September 1988 – February 1989: Principal Staff, Office of Economic System Restructuring, Shanghai Municipal People's Government February 1989 – January 1992: Deputy Director, Office of Economic System Restructuring, Shanghai Municipal People's Government January 1992 – September 1995: Director, Department of Macro-Control System, State Commission for Economic System Restructuring September 1995 – March 1998: Vice Governor and Member of Party Committee, Guizhou Provincial People's Government March 1998 – February 2007: Deputy Minister and Deputy Party Chief, Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China February 2007 – September 2007: Deputy Secretary-General, State Council of the People's Republic of China & Director of Preparatory Group, National Foreign Exchange Investment Corporation (China Investment Corporation) September 2007 – March 2013: Chair and Party Chief, China Investment Corporation

Awards In 2008, Time magazine considered Lou to be one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Forbes Magazine considered him to be the 30th most powerful person in the world, according to their "Powerful People 2010" list. In 2011 he was included in the 50 Most Influential ranking of Bloomberg Markets magazine. Lou was listed as twelfth on aiCIO's 2012 list of the 100 most influential institutional investors worldwide.