Economist Jin Keyu is soon to join the CS Board of Directors. She considers the re-education camps in Xinjiang "legitimate." The bank does not comment on this.
Jin Keyu has had an impressive career. She was born in Beijing in 1982, went to school in New York, studied economics at Harvard, and has been an economics professor at the London School of Economics since 2016. If Western media want China's economic course explained to them, they turn to Jin.
Credit Suisse also wants to benefit from this knowledge. Jin is to be elected by the bank's shareholders at the end of April. in den Verwaltungsrat gewählt werden. Es wäre nicht ihr erstes Mandat in der Schweiz, sie sitzt bereits im Verwaltungsrat des Luxusgüterkonzerns Richemont.
No problem with Uyghur camp
But some of Jin's statements raise eyebrows. Regarding the demonstrations in Hong Kong, she told "Magazin" about a year ago: "The instability did not come from Beijing. It was caused by some Hong Kong citizens." On China's treatment of the Uighur Muslim minority in the province in Xinjiang, she said, "What we hear from the region is that there are institutions there where people are taught the Chinese language and culture and where they try to establish a stronger connection with the country they live in. I think that's legitimate." read more