Norman C.T. Liu is a Chinese-American business executive and former Senior Advisor to ICBC Leasing based in Beijing, China. During the fall of 2021, he was named President & CEO of Nordic Aviation Capital, the world's largest regional aircraft leasing firm, with operations in Ireland, Singapore, Denmark, Dubai and Toronto. Liu also currently serves as a Senior Advisor to

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, a Board Member of GA Telesis and an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate Business School of

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. He was formerly the Chairman, President & CEO of

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(GECAS) based in London and Singapore until his retirement in December 2016. He was a veteran of

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, a primary unit of

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to which GECAS was grouped. He assumed the CEO position at GECAS in July 2009. GECAS was the world's largest aircraft financing firm during his tenure with AUM of over $55 billion. Liu graduated from

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in 1979 and obtained an MBA from Harvard in 1982.

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