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Victor Gao
Professor, lawyer, speaker
Victor Gao is chair professor of Soochow University; chairman of China Energy Security Institute; vice president of the Center for China and Globalization; a member of the Beijing Energy Club, the Global Counsel of Asia Society in New York City and the International Advisory Board of the Energy Intelligence Group in London; an advisor to Saudi Aramco; a member of the editorial board of the OPEC Energy Review and a member of the board of directors of several listed companies in Hong Kong.
Victor has extensive experience in government, diplomacy, securities regulation, law, investment banking, PE, corporate management and media. He was Deng Xiaoping’s English interpreter in the 1980s, and served as the China Policy Advisor at the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission in 1999 and 2000. His investment banking experience has included senior positions with Morgan Stanley (vice president of Morgan Stanley Asia in the Merger, Acquisition and Restructuring Department), CICC (general manager of the Investment Banking Department, head of M&A Practice and head of the CICC Hong Kong Investment Banking Department) and Daiwa Securities (co-chairman of China, executive vice president and managing director). Victor’s corporate management experience included senior positions with CNOOC Limited as its senior vice president, general counsel, company secretary, member of the Investment Committee and director of CNOOC International, and with major Hong Kong companies including PCCW and Henderson Land Group.
Over the years, Victor has worked on many major M&A, IPO, CB, bond issues and other corporate advisory assignments in TMT, oil and gas, automotive, banking, insurance, building materials, consumer goods, aviation, satellite communications and new and renewable energy, with a combined value in excess of US $100B.
Victor holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a M.A. in international relations from the political science department of Yale Graduate School, an M.A. in English from Beijing University of Foreign Studies, and a B.A. in English from Suzhou University, and is a licensed attorney-at-law in the state of New York. Since 2004, Victor has been the chairman of the Yale Law School Association of China.
