SHENG Jin
Jean is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Banking and Finance Law, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, and an honorary fellow at the Asian Institute of International Financial Law, the University of Hong Kong.
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Jean is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Banking and Finance Law, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, and an honorary fellow at the Asian Institute of International Financial Law, the University of Hong Kong. She practiced law in China as a financial lawyer. Jean is a graduate of the University of Hong Kong (Ph.D.) (2010), New York University (LL.M.) (2011), University of Toronto (LL.M.) (2004) and Peking University (LL.B.) (2000). She received the Dean’s Admission Award of NYU School of Law. Jean visited the University of Michigan Law School as a Michigan Grotius research scholar in the academic year of 2016-17. She was a visiting post-doctoral fellow in January-March 2016 at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, and a visiting fellow at the University of Melbourne Asian Law Centre as an Australian Endeavour Research Fellowship awardee in 2007. She is currently doing research on law and development, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the Belt and Road initiative. Her research interests include securities regulation, development finance, FinTech, corporate finance, corporate governance and other regulatory issues in financial sector.
She was also an Adjunct Researcher with the NUS Centre for Banking & Finance Law between 12 October 2014 to 4 October 2017.
Publication
Book
Jin Sheng, Alternative Development Finance and Parallel Development Strategies in the Asia-Pacific: Racing for Development Hegemony? (Edward Elgar Publishing 2021)
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): A Parallel IFI of the Global Financial System
This research project explores the impacts of China-led AIIB and BRI on the established global financial architecture. It addresses the following issues from development finance and geo-political perspectives: (i) BRI’s Opportunities and risks; (ii) Singapore as a major international infrastructure financial hub; (iii) AIIB governance; (iv) Comparison of development strategies between AIIB and other MDBs; (v) Visions of the U.S. and China on the global financial system.