James Zhan Email

James Zhan Work

• 2024 -now Chairman, Executive Board, World Investment Conference, (WAIPA) @ WAIPA
• 2024 -now Associate Fellow, Chatham House @ Chatham House
• 2024 -now Chief Advisor to Chairman @ World Free Zones Organization ("World FZO")
• 2022 -now Founding Co-chair @ Global Alliance of Special Economic Zones (GASEZ)
• 2023 -now Editorial Advisory Board Member, Financial Times’ fDi Magazine @ Financial Times
• 2016 -now Founding Chairman, Governing Board, UN Sustainable Stock Exchange (SSE) (co-founder) @ United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative
• 2015 -now Advisory Board Member, TIDE Centre of University of Oxford @ TIDE Centre, University of Oxford
• 2022 -now Member of Advisory Board @ Center for Competitiveness, University of Fribourg
• now Academic Advisory Board Member, Emerging Market Institute of Cornell University @ Cornell University
• 2023 -2024 Advisory Council Member @ IFRS Foundation
• now Chief Advisor to the Secretary-General @ UNCTAD
• 2008 -2023 Senior Director, Investment and Enterprise @ UNCTAD
• 2009 -2023 Chief Editor, World Investment Report @ UNCTAD
• 2008 -2023 Founder and Lead, World Investment Forum @ UNCTAD
• now Chief Strategic Advisor @ WAIPA
• now Editor-in-Chief, Transnational Corporation journal @ United Nations
• now Global Agenda Council member (Advanced Manufacturing Council, and then Trade and Investment Council) @ World Economic Forum
• now Director, Policy and Capacity Building Branch, DIAE @ UNCTAD
• now Chief, International Investment and Technology Treaties Program @ UNCTAD
• now Chief, Office of Director, Investment, Technology and Enertrise @ UNCTAD
• now Economist, Office of Secretary-General @ UNCTAD