Victor Zhikai GAO is Chair Professor of Soochow University; Chairman of China Energy Security Institute; and Vice President of CCG. Victor Gao has extensive experience in government, diplomacy, securities regulation, legal, investment banking, PE, corporate management and media.

Victor 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.

Victor’s investment banking experience included senior positions with Morgan Stanley, CICC and Daiwa Securities. 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.

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.

“China and the United States need to talk as equals on equal terms by respecting each other, rather than one country believing in imposing its will onto the other country.”