- Lead a team and collaborated to complete a Policy Briefing Paper within a 30 minute deadline for a wider uninformed audience. - The topic of the Paper was the impact for Japanese Nomura Banking Group of having an association with the Chinese created Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank including the history of the AIIB, its purpose, and the benefits and possible risks of Association with the AIIB. * Please note that I am not in any way connected with the Nomura Banking Group nor the AIIB. I co-authored this Paper to test the skills that I had learnt at the Foreign Policy Summer School of June 2015. I have uploaded this paper as a demonstration of the skills I have learnt at the school for future employers and career contacts.

1. Nomura Group Report on The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank 23/06/15
Daniel Pearse, Daniel Giraldo,Katy Papashvili, Titi Babafunso Version1.1
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is an initiative to promote infrastructure
investment in Asia. Joining the Bank could offer the Nomura group potential opportunities,
however there are some political risks as well.
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is a global multilateral development banking system
created by China in order to spread Chinese commercial influence across the World offering
investments in infrastructure. 1
The Asian Infrastructure Bank was founded in 2014 Has 57
members with key countries including the UK; Germany, France, China, Russia, Saudi Arabia
and Turkey. 2
The Bank’s aims are to “focus on the development of infrastructure and other productive sectors
in Asia, including energy and power, transportation and telecommunications, rural infrastructure
and agriculture development, water supply and sanitation, environmental protection, urban
development and logistics, etc.” 3
However the Bank faces competition from the likes of the IMF,
the World Bank and other Development banks such as the Asian Development Bank. 4
Quartz (30th March 2015) ‘All of the countries joining China’s alternative to the World Bank’ at
http://qz.com/372326/all-the-countries-that-are-joining-chinas-alternative-to-the-world-bank/
Recommendations
 The Nomura Group having an agreement with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
will allow the Nomura group access to new sources of finance which are needed. $8
Trillion worth of investment is needed by 2020 in order to maintain economic
development. 5
 However joining the AIIB could open the Nomura group to new sources of outside
interference if China uses the Bank for political leverage. 6
1 Jonathan Wheatley (2nd March 2015) ‘Q&A: the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’ at
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bf9c52c0-c8c8-11e4-b43b-00144feab7de.html#axzz3dtX9tdxQ
2 AIIB (23rd June 2015) ‘History’ at http://www.aiibank.org/html/aboutus/AIIB/
3 Ibid., ‘THE ASIAN INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT BANK’ at
http://www.aiibank.org/html/aboutus/AIIB/
4 Reuters (5th November 2014) Three major nations absent as China launches World Bank rival in Asia at
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0ID08U20141105?irpc=932
5 The Economist (28th May 2015) ‘To join or not to join Will Japan lend its muscle to China’s new Asian
infrastructure bank?’ at http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21652351-will-japan-lend-its-muscle-chinas-
new-asian-infrastructure-bank-join-or-not-join
6 Ibid.,
Countries that have joined or plan
to join the Chinese-led Asian
Infrastructure Investment Bank