Jia Peiyuan

Pei-yuan Chia is a Chinese-American banker who once served as Vice Chairman of Citibank in the United States.

Biography

Born in 1939 in Hong Kong, into a financial family originally from Shanghai. He was educated in Taiwan, graduating from the Department of Economics at Tunghai University in 1961. In 1964, he earned his MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. After graduation, he worked at General Foods Corporation in the United States. In 1974, he joined Citibank as head of consumer finance, and in 1992 became one of the six top decision-makers at Citibank. From 1993 to 1996, he served as Vice Chairman of Citibank. On June 17, 2002, he was appointed as a director of BOC Hong Kong (Holdings). He is also a trustee of the Asia Society, a director of CNH Global and Singapore Airlines, and a senior advisor to Temasek Holdings.

Honors

• Received an honorary doctorate from Tunghai University in 2007.
• Received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Museum of Chinese in America in 2013.

Family

• His father Jia Dehuai was the second son of Republic of China financial historian and official Jia Shiyi. His mother Qin Shunhua was the daughter of Chinese educator Qin Fen.
• His wife was Yan Junquan, fourth daughter of former Republic of China President Yen Chia-kan. In memory of his late wife, he built a women's dormitory named "Quan Garden" at Tunghai University (named after her, because over sixty years ago, he used to stand guard at the entrance of the women’s dormitory at Tunghai University), and inscribed the following poem on a stone tablet by the garden stream: