About

Christine Yixin Chen oversees JPMorgan Chase’s China legal function. A dual-qualified lawyer, her current position gives her a unique perspective on the challenges facing US financial institutions operating in the jurisdiction. Chen took up the role in 2010, at a time when the company was making a consolidated effort to grow within the jurisdiction through a number of new initiatives. She previously spent nine years with Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, practising across its New York, Hong Kong and Beijing offices. Chen lectured at Shanghai’s Fudan University School of Law from 1995 to 2000. During this period, she was a research fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London in 1998 and 1999, and worked on the city’s UK-China Forum in 1999.