Jin Ligang is a Partner at DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group, a founding member of DGA Group, and is based in Beijing. As Chairman of DGA-ASG China, he leads the Beijing office and oversees ASG China’s business operations.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Jin headed the China team for MBP Consulting, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mayer Brown law firm, providing strategic advisory services to multinational companies doing business in China. For 20 years, Mr. Jin worked on Chinese foreign trade and investment issues in China’s Ministry of Commerce (formerly Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation) as Deputy Director, Director and Deputy Director General. 

Mr. Jin was Director of U.S. Affairs and held diplomatic positions including Commercial Counselor at the Chinese Embassy in Washington and Lead Commercial Officer at the Chinese Consulate in New York, where he worked closely with both Chinese and American companies on trade and investment-related issues. While at the Ministry of Commerce, he was part of the Chinese delegation for talks on China’s accession to the World Trade Organization and was directly involved in a series of bilateral talks including U.S.-China market access consultations, IPR discussions and GATT negotiations. He also worked as the Special Assistant to the Chairman of China United Trading Corp. GmbH in Hamburg, Germany.

Mr. Jin graduated from Beijing Foreign Trade Institute. He also studied at Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali (LUISS) in Rome and at the University of Maryland. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and English.