Dr. Jian Gao is the Vice Governor of China Development Bank (CDB). Before moving to CDB, he worked in different Departments of the Ministry of Finance for sixteen years. Throughout his career, Dr. Jian Gao has made many outstanding contributions to the formation of China's Treasury bond market and has led a transition of CDB's issuing format from administrative placement to market-oriented selling. Over the years, he has introduced new instruments in the market and initiated a series of financial innovations to boost its liquidity. He attended Beijing University of Political Science & Law for graduate studies, received his PhD in economics at the Institute of Public Finance, and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University.