Xi-Qing Gao
Senior Lecturing Fellow
B.A. 1978, LL.M. 1981, University of International Business and Economics. Professor Gao is a native of Xian, People’s Republic of China.
Gao, in 2007, was named president and chief investment officer of China Investment Corp., which manages a part of China’s foreign exchange reserves. He graduated from Duke Law School in 1986, where he was a Richard Nixon Scholar. He has frequently taught at Duke Law School in an adjunct faculty position, and currently holds similar positions at several law and management schools in China.
He practiced law from 1986-1988 with a Wall Street firm before returning to China. Gao has since served on arbitration panels for hundreds of international trade or investment disputes between Chinese and foreign companies, and was instrumental in the establishment of Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges in 1990.
Gao has written extensively on Chinese securities law, banking, legal philosophy, and antitrust. Also, he and some of his former students started a charitable fund to help children in the poorest areas of Tibet and Mongolia stay in school.