1: Beginnings
2: Highlights
3: Mandate
4: Investment operations
5: Membership
6: Capital and finance
7: Governance
8: Transitions
9: Institutional matters
10: Reflections
Natalie Lichtenstein was the Inaugural General Counsel at the Asian
Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). As Chief Counsel for the
57-country negotiations that led to AIIB's founding as an
international development bank, she was the principal legal adviser
and drafter for its Charter. That work drew on her 30-year legal
career at the World Bank, where she advised on lending operations
in China and other countries for the first 20 years, and served in
senior
positions in institutional governance and reforms for her third
decade. She worked at the US Treasury Department on development
bank issues and normalization of US relations with China, and has
taught
Chinese law in the US since the 1980s. She is an Adjunct Professor
at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a
member of the Oxford International Organizations (OXIO) Advisory
Board. She received an AB summa cum laude in East Asian Studies
from Harvard University and a JD (East Asian Legal Studies) from
Harvard Law School.
Lichtenstein's book is a timely publication and a welcome addition
to the scholarly literature on the AIIB. This book, with its
insider's view, will help readers better understand the parallels
and distinctions between the AIIB and other existing MDBs. I would
highly recommend this book to friends, students and professionals
who are interested in the creation and development of the China-led
AIIB.
*Hong Yu, Senior Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, National
University of Singapore, Asia Pacific Law Review*
By placing the AIIB in a historical and comparative context, A
Comparative Guide to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank could
not have arrived at a better time.
*Maria Adele Carrai, Pacific Affairs*
A Comparative Guide to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank's
major contribution is to provide a comparative framework of
reference to understand in what ways the AIIB is different or
similar to other MDBs, as it is only through comparison that one
can have a better understanding.
*Maria Adele Carrai, Pacific Affairs*
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