Even in the financial world, Gao Xiqing isn't a household name. Yet the 54-year-old civil servant in Beijing oversees a pile of cash that would make any hedge fund manager swoon. Gao is general manager of the $200 billion China Investment Corp., created this year to invest the mainland's foreign currency reserves in global capital markets. Don't mistake him for some faceless Chinese bureaucrat, though. He graduated from Duke University School of Law in 1986, spent two years with a big New York law firm, and then went home to help craft China's securities regulations.
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