Dr. Bei is the Secretary General of IFCII, Co-Chairman of the Council Board and President of the Chinese Academy of Financial Inclusion at the Renmin University of China (RUC), and concurrently a professor and doctoral advisor at the RUC School of Finance. A 30-year veteran in the financial sector, Bei previously worked at the Ministry of Finance, China Securities Regulatory Commission, China International Capital Corporation Limited, and JPMorgan. In the early 1990s, Bei was a visiting research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He has published many academic works, including The Theory of Macro Finance, An Analysis on the Flow of Funds in China, and Beyond Financial Inclusion. Bei is a recipient of the Sun Yefang Prize for Economics, and has led major research projects supported by the National Social Science Fund of China.