Ye Jianming

Ye Jianming (Chinese: 叶简明; born June 5, 1977 in Pucheng, Fujian) is Chairman and Executive Director of CEFC China Energy Company Limited, a Global Fortune 500 energy and finance conglomerate. He is also Chairman of China Energy Fund Committee, a Hong Kong based think tank with consultative status with the UN, Chairman of the Academy of Chinese Culture, Director of the Shanghai Energy Security Research Center, Chairman of CEFC Shanghai Charity Fund, Economic Adviser to President of the Czech Republic, and Political Adviser to the New People’s Party of Hong Kong. He is also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS).

Under Ye's leadership CEFC China was ranked 229 on the Fortune Global 500 List in 2016. With a workforce of over 30,000 it has been honored as one of the Top Ten Most Influential Chinese Enterprises and Top Ten Most Internationally Competitive Chinese Enterprises by the China Most Influential Brand Names Summit Forum. During his tenure CEFC China solely funded the establishment of the Hong Kong based China Energy Fund Committee (CEFC), a non-governmental global think tank, an NGO with special consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council. The China Energy Fund committee has engaged former heads of states from a dozen countries and over a hundred political leaders are serving as advisers and researchers. It has also formed long-term cooperation mechanisms with UN and EU institutions and has entered into strategic cooperation with international organizations and think tanks.

Ye has been honored with the Award of International Multinational Corporation’s Leader and Top 10 Outstanding Brand Leaders in Asia. His philanthropic activities include support for education, poverty alleviation and disaster relief. His CEFC Shanghai Charity Fund has been honored as one of the Top Ten Philanthropic Chinese Enterprises four years in a row. He is noted for pioneering a business model known as an “organized economic community”.