美国国务院（U.S. Department of State）于7月25日宣布任命华美银行董事长兼最高执行长吴建民（Dominic Ng）为2023年亚太经济合作组织（Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation，简称APEC）商贸咨询理事会（ABAC）主席。作为2023年APEC峰会的主办方，美国有权委任当年的ABAC主席。在职期间，吴建民将与其他商贸咨询理事会代表一同，为APEC的领导人提供专业意见和建议，推动区内经济持续发展。

The United States announces Dominic Ng, Chairman and CEO of East West Bank, who was appointed as a U.S. member of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Advisory Council (ABAC) on April 25, will serve as the Chair during the United States’ APEC host year in 2023.  In this role, Mr. Ng will work closely with other ABAC members to provide recommendations to APEC Leaders reflecting the perspectives of key APEC stakeholders.  For the remainder of Thailand’s APEC host year in 2022, Mr. Ng also will serve as ABAC Co-Chair alongside the Chair from Thailand.

Mr. Ng and his ABAC counterparts will advise APEC Leaders on issues affecting the continued economic growth of the APEC region.  As ABAC Co-Chair in 2022 and Chair in 2023, Mr. Ng will represent ABAC in meetings with government and business dignitaries on the margins of ABAC meetings.  As outgoing Chair in 2024, Mr. Ng will reprise his role as Co-Chair when Peru hosts APEC.

For more than 30 years, APEC has served as the premier economic platform for the United States to engage our regional partners on structural issues to advance a fair, open, sustainable and inclusive economic and trade architecture.

Created in 1995, ABAC consists of up to three business representatives from each APEC economy and is a key component of APEC’s multi-stakeholder approach to trade and economic policies.  ABAC meets throughout the year to discuss policy recommendations, undertakes activities to promote trade and investment as well as sustainable and inclusive growth, and reports annually to APEC Leaders.

Mr. Ng leads East West Bank, the largest publicly-listed independent bank headquartered in Southern California.  In his 30 years as CEO, Mr. Ng has transformed East West Bank from a small savings and loan association with $600 million in assets into a global full-service commercial bank with over $62 billion in assets.  Bank Director ranked East West as the No. 2 top performing large U.S. bank in 2022.  Mr. Ng serves on the governing boards of Mattel, Inc., the University of Southern California, and the Academy of Motion Pictures.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Los Angeles Branch.