Xiaoyuan Shi is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2012-13.  She has worked at the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) for 28 years.  Currently, she is the deputy general manager of the internal audit department of ICBC's head office in Beijing, previously working in the accounting department of ICBC's Shanxi branch.  Shi received her bachelor's degree in economics from the Shanxi Finance and Economics University and her MBA from Hong Kong University.