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This memorial website was created in memory of Leiping Wang. 

July 18, 2014
July 18, 2014
Leiping, all your colleagues and I will miss you. Rest in Peace.
July 18, 2014
July 18, 2014
posted from Reynold Duncan

Lost for words. What a loss. A special person and first class professional indeed. We hoped and prayed he would be back in Islamabad.
July 18, 2014
July 18, 2014
Leiping, it is so sad we will no longer be able to meet and chat on the metro going home. May you rest in eternal peace.
July 18, 2014
July 18, 2014
I can't believe that Leiping had left us. I will forever remember his kindness, friendship and smile. My heart goes with his family. May Leiping rest in peace and we will do whatever we can to support the family. Xueman
July 18, 2014
July 18, 2014
Such a loss to all of us! Leiping is such a wonderful colleague, and I wish him rest in peace!.
July 18, 2014
July 18, 2014
Leiping, my friend since we met in Beijing when you are at BERI. You were an excellent colleague and father of your family. I will miss you.
July 18, 2014
July 18, 2014
Leiping now has an eternal life with us. But I still do not want to believe and do not want to think about his passing away. It is a huge loss to the society. I would like to express my deep condolences and feel extremely sorry especially for his families.
July 18, 2014
July 18, 2014
I could not believe that Leiping has left us. He is an excellent professional, fine human being and dear friend and colleague. We worked together both in EAP and SAR, and I was so impressed with his work, his techinal knowledge, professionalism, and passion to work effectively for development in energy sector. We all miss Leiping.
July 18, 2014
July 18, 2014
Leiping is such a kind person. He brought warmth every time we talked. I will miss him...
July 18, 2014
July 18, 2014
Leiping, Though I knew the day will come, it comes so early. I miss you for all the years we spent together, and wish you have a pleasant new life in the other side.
July 18, 2014
July 18, 2014
Dear Leiping, it is so sad we will no longer meet again. I was very impression working with you, I learned from you many things. We all miss you. Hopefully your beloved family can handle this difficult situation soon. Goodbye, Leiping.
July 18, 2014
July 18, 2014
Rest in peace, Leiping…. You are now in a much better place…
July 17, 2014
July 17, 2014
Leiping was a talented colleague whose life was cut too short. We will miss him.
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April 2, 2015
April 2, 2015
Leiping, I'll never forget how kind you were to me during those years in Beijing. I always saw you as one of the most humble and intelligent people I have ever known. A true gentleman. I will miss you.
August 1, 2014
August 1, 2014
A big mind and a gentle soul. Taken from this world too quickly, you will be remembered forever.
July 29, 2014
July 29, 2014
Leiping, once being a classmate with you is truly a luxury in my life. I am grateful to the fate of our paths crossing that made me one of the many around the world whose lives have been brightened up by the shine of yours.

(A classmate and friend at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1982-1986)
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Posted for Stephen Wilson from ERM

July 24, 2014

Leiping, it was a great privilege to have known you, and to have worked with you. And tragic that you have been taken from your family and from the world so young.

Gracious. Humble. Thoughtful. Intelligent. Patient. Hard-working. Intelligent. Generous. Kind.
Leiping you were all these things and more. A true role model. Without doubt you were one of China's finest sons.

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I first met Leiping in Zhengzhou in Feb 1997, just after Deng Xiaoping had passed away.
Leiping was Deputy Director of the Beijing Economic Research Institute for water resources and electric power. Leiping was running the peak power consultancy body in the biggest country in the world in his 30s. I was a young consultant on my first trip to China.

Several years later I worked with Leiping in Hong Kong. He had completed his MBA at Cranfield and worked for a time in London. I persuaded him to come and work with me in Hong Kong in energy consulting.

At that time I learned of Leiping's spirit of service to society. How he had been chosen for an Air Force career, and would have been trained as a bomber pilot, but that he had told the authorities that he didn't want to learn to drop bombs to destroy things and kill people. Instead he wanted to help to build his country. And so he went to engineering school and became a power system planner. He was in the first university class in China to study western market economics.

Leiping told me he was the son of medical doctors. The youngest child and the only one whose education was not disrupted by the cultural revolution.

Leiping was there in June 1989, and lost some of his university friends. He didn't speak much about that, but it was clear that the heady idealism of youth had been quietly and thoughtfully channelled into quiet work of lasting benefit to others.

Through the World Bank, other countries throughout Asia were to benefit from Leiping's knowledge and wisdom and hard work.

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Leiping, I have often found myself speaking of you as one of the people I respect most. As one from whom I learned many things. You had the ability to communicate much with few words. You are greatly missed.

May you rest in peace, dear friend. Rest in peace.

A friend dearly missed

July 23, 2014

Leiping and I got to know each other when he joined the Bank over ten years ago.  We didn't have much interaction then as I left DC soon for field assignments.  We reconnected again when he joined South Asia in the Islamabad Office as the Lead Energy Specialist and when I just finished my assignement there, but still supporting the country program from Nepal.

We had extensive discussions on the country, the energy sector and its challenges as well as personal matters, such as relocation logistics, family visa status in DC, the Chinese community in Islamabad.  I actually gave him a long list of Chinese restaurants hidden among the Islamabad neighbourhoods, and informed him about the health clubs and the tracking trails etc.

Leiping loved his family very much and family was one topic we talked about a lot, me explaining the family evacuation experiences after Marriot Hotel bombing and him explaining to me how he went about the challenge and the efforts he understook to overcome the G4 Visa issue when one's duty station changed.  To him, family is always Number One.

Leiping was then all excited and eager to engage and start actions on the ground.  He had lots of experiences in this sector and had already a good analysis of the energy situation and development strategy in Pakistan.  He gave me a full doze of his thinking.  He was quite committed and eager to take up the challenge.  I explained to him the complexities, challenges and difficulties in Pakistan as well as within the Bank to engage in hydropower development on Indus, all from the social political side, which is my field, and let out my frustration and pessimism over the hydropower development in Pakistan.  I really gave him an earful. His answer threw me off the chair.  He said - I'm an engineer and I don't think these are big problems.  I almost jumped from my chair.  He then said - I take care of the engineering side and you take care of the social political problems.  So there's a division of labour among the team and in that sense these are really not my problems. I then realized he was having fun of me.  I can visualize him sitting there talking.

It is very sad and unfortunate that God didn't give him the time to complete what he has started.  Otherwise he could have made a huge difference on the ground. We'll keep him in our heart and continue the mission he has started.  May he rest in peace.

A wonderful colleague from Mohua Mukherjee

July 23, 2014

Dear Leiping,

It is hard for me to believe that you have left us.  I think it was June 2012 when we had a SASDE Retreat in Nepal, outside of Kathmandu, in Nagarkot.  I met you there for the first time and I will always remember and appreciate the few conversations that we shared during the sessions, and most especially the bus ride back and forth to Kathmandu. 

At one point we were parked at the roadside and our driver was nowhere to be found, for a long time.  I remember stepping out of the bus to look for him, bringing him back, and seeing your broad smile when you declared "I like this lady. She is a LEADER!!!"  and we both laughed.

I dropped into your office a few times for brief chats, and we always used to say that we should have lunch to catch up on more things, particularly about how you were finding life in Islamabad, when you came back once.  I used to travel to Yemen on mission in the earlier part of my career in the Bank, and you said you were interested to hear more about that.  I wish we had not left it for later--at least one lunchtime chat with you would have been a wonderful memory for me now.

I really appreciated your kindness, your professionalism and your good spirit every time we interacted. 

May you rest in peace, dear friend.

Mohua

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