Ziwei Liao is a Senior Investment Officer at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), where she leads the Bank’s energy sector engagement in Southeast Asia. Since joining AIIB in 2018, she has originated and structured landmark public and private sector financings, successfully mobilising capital from international commercial banks, multilateral institutions, and local development partners. Her portfolio includes pioneering transactions such as the first—and the largest—wind power project in Central Asia, Bangladesh’s first waste-to-energy plant, Indonesia’s first pumped-storage hydropower facility, and AIIB’s first greenfield PPP project finance in the transport sector.

Before joining AIIB, Ziwei spent over 14 years as an investment professional with leading Chinese and U.S. financial institutions and corporations. She has deep expertise across the energy and urban utilities sectors, as well as in clean and digital technologies, with global experience spanning public finance, project finance, direct equity investment, M&A, strategy, and management consulting.

Ziwei earned her undergraduate degree in Economics and Finance from the University of Hong Kong, a Master’s in Economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and studied Aerospace Engineering at Tsinghua University. She is a CFA charterholder and a Certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM).