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Simon Jin is Managing Director and President for Greater China at S&P Global. Based in Beijing, Simon is responsible for driving the company’s business-development efforts across all divisions, including S&P Global Ratings, S&P Global Market Intelligence, S&P Dow Jones Indices and S&P Global Platts, in the Greater China region. Simon is also the CEO of S&P Global (China) Ratings, the domestic Chinese entity of S&P Global Ratings, leading its domestic ratings business in China.

Before joining Standard & Poor’s in 2015, Simon spent 23 years at UBS AG, where he held senior positions in fixed income and foreign exchange. Most recently, he was Managing Director and President of UBS (China) Ltd., where he set up the bank’s business locally and managed the expansion of its onshore fixed income and wealth management platforms.

Simon holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, a master’s degree in computer engineering from Penn State University and a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Tsinghua University.