X. Rick Niu
Government Relations • International Affairs • Strategic Communications
Co-Chair
X. Rick Niu is Founder & CEO of Nexus Worldwide, a New York-based private investment and strategic advisory firm. Besides serving as Co-Chair of Mercury Public Affairs, he advises Cambridge Associates, a global investment firm overseeing more than $650 billion in assets under management and advisement.
Over a 25-year career at AIG and ING Group, Mr. Niu led multinational businesses across developed and emerging markets in the insurance and financial services sectors. His work today focuses on special-situations principal investing, CEO counsel, global capital allocation, geopolitical risk, and long-term strategic positioning amid an increasingly complex international environment.
Mr. Niu advises senior corporate leaders, major asset owners, and private families on cross-border strategy, frontier technologies, and global market dynamics. He has also been consulted by senior policymakers and international institutions on issues at the intersection of business, public policy, and economic strategy.
He is the Founding President of The Impact Council, a nonprofit initiative that convenes prominent public- and private-sector leaders from major economies to advance dialogue on global economic and strategic issues.
Mr. Niu is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Economic Club of New York, and a former Kissinger Fellow at the Wilson Center. He also serves as Founding Advisory Council Co-Chair of The Asian American Foundation and as a Global Council Member of Junior Achievement Worldwide.
Mr. Niu holds a B.S. from Tsinghua University and an MBA from Columbia Business School, and is an alumnus of INSEAD’s Senior Executive Leadership Program and the Directors’ College at Stanford Law School.
Over a 25-year career at AIG and ING Group, Mr. Niu led multinational businesses across developed and emerging markets in the insurance and financial services sectors. His work today focuses on special-situations principal investing, CEO counsel, global capital allocation, geopolitical risk, and long-term strategic positioning amid an increasingly complex international environment.
Mr. Niu advises senior corporate leaders, major asset owners, and private families on cross-border strategy, frontier technologies, and global market dynamics. He has also been consulted by senior policymakers and international institutions on issues at the intersection of business, public policy, and economic strategy.
He is the Founding President of The Impact Council, a nonprofit initiative that convenes prominent public- and private-sector leaders from major economies to advance dialogue on global economic and strategic issues.
Mr. Niu is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Economic Club of New York, and a former Kissinger Fellow at the Wilson Center. He also serves as Founding Advisory Council Co-Chair of The Asian American Foundation and as a Global Council Member of Junior Achievement Worldwide.
Mr. Niu holds a B.S. from Tsinghua University and an MBA from Columbia Business School, and is an alumnus of INSEAD’s Senior Executive Leadership Program and the Directors’ College at Stanford Law School.
