James Stent

James Stent served for 13 years on the boards of China Minsheng Bank and China Everbright Bank in Beijing, and is presently on the board of XacBank in Mongolia. Altogether, he has been engaged in commercial banking in Asia for more than four decades, starting with Citibank and Crocker National Bank in the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Thailand, prior to joining the management of a Thai bank in Bangkok. He is interested not only in finance, but in the interfaces between finance, culture, and politics, all of which are explored in his book "China's Banking Transformation: The Untold Story". Stent now divides his time between residences in Bangkok and California, traveling frequently to China as well. Fluent in Chinese and Thai, he studied economic development at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and Asian history at the University of California, Berkeley.