Professor Chong-En Bai is Dean of the School of Economics and Management and Distinguished Professor of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences of Tsinghua University. He earned his Ph.D. degree in Economics from Harvard University. His research focuses on the relationship between economic institutions, policy, and development, and from this perspective, the Chinese economy. 

Professor Bai is Vice-Chairman of the 13th All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce. He is a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the “15th Five-Year Plan” National Development Planning Expert Committee, the Chinese Economists 50 Forum, the China Finance 40 Forum, and Chinainfo 100. He is also Chairman of Academic Committee of China Wealth Management 50 Forum. He was a member of the monetary policy committee of the People’s Bank of China and of the executive council of International Economic Association, a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution, and Adjunct Vice-President of Beijing State-Owned Assets Management Co., Ltd..

Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky is Chair of Parkside Global Advisors in Washington, DC advises multinational companies on global market access, investment and negotiation.

Prior to this, Ambassador Barshefsky was the United States Trade Representative from 1997-2001 and Acting and Deputy USTR from 1993-1996. As a member of President Bill Clinton’s Cabinet, she was responsible for the formulation of US trade policy and the negotiation of hundreds of complex trade, market access and investment agreements, including China’s historic WTO agreement, and global agreements in financial services, telecommunications, high-tech products and cyberspace. She is the recipient of numerous academic, industry and professional honors, and has been ranked as one of the most influential lawyers in the United States.

She serves on the boards of the Estee Lauder Companies and Stagwell Global, and previously on the Boards of Intel Corporation, Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, and the American Express Company. She is a Trustee of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Chair of the National Committee on US China Relations.

Kaushik Basu is Professor of Economics and the Carl Marks Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. He was formerly Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank, 2012-16, and, prior to that, Chief Economic Adviser to the Indian Government, 2009-2012.

Basu received his PhD and M.Sc (Econ) from the London School of Economics and BA (Hons) from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. He has received honorary doctorates from several institutes and universities, including IIT Bombay, Fordham University New York, and the University of Bath U.K.

Kaushik Basu has published widely in the areas of Development Economics, Industrial Organization, Game Theory and Welfare Economics. His two most recent books are An Economist in the Real World: The Art of Policymaking in India (MIT Press and Penguin Random House, 2015) and The Republic of Beliefs: A New Approach to Law and Economics (Princeton University Press, 2018. His books have been translated into several languages, including Chinese, Spanish, Italian, Russian and French.

Agnès Bénassy-Quéré is Deputy-Governor at Banque de France, on leave from University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Paris School of Economics where she is a Professor of economics. Prior to joining the Banque de France, she was Chief economist at the French Treasury (2020-2023). From 2012 until 2017, she chaired the French Council of Economic Aanalysis. Prior positions include Director of CEPII, the French research institute in international economics (2006-2012), and academic positions at the Universities of Paris-Nanterre, Lille and Cergy-Pontoise, as well as at École Polytechnique.

She was also a Member of the French macro-prudential authority, the tax advisory council, the productivity council, the Franco-German council of economic experts, and the Banque of France general board. She was in charge of the CEPR European Economic Architecture Research and Policy Network, and was a non-resident fellow at Bruegel. Her research interests focus on the international monetary system and European macroeconomic policy. 

Lorenzo Bini Smaghi is the former Chairman of Société Générale. He was previously Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank.

He is currently Honorary Professor at University College London’ Policy Lab, non-resident Fellow at Bocconi University’s Institute for European Policymaking and CEPR Distinguished Fellow. He is also the Chairman of the Pecci Museum of Contemporary Art in Prato. He is Honorary President of the Italian Alumni of the University of Chicago.

 
He held several positions as Chairman of the board (Italgas, SNAM and SACE) and member of the Board (Finmeccanica, MTS, the European Investment Bank, Morgan Stanley International and Tages Holding). He was Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the first Chairman of Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, a cultural institution in Florence.

He started his career in 1983 as an Economist in the Research Department of the Banca d’Italia. He moved in 1994 to the European Monetary Institute to head the Policy Division, preparing for the creation of the ECB.  In 1998 he was appointed Director General for International Affairs in the Italian Treasury.

 
He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), a Master’s degree from the University of Southern California and a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Chicago.

Dr. Fang CAI is the Chairman of CF40 Academic Committee, and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). He is the Vice President of the World Association for China Studies (WACS), and a member of the World Bank High-Level Advisory Council on Jobs.

His research focuses on various aspects of China's economy, including economic reform and development, population and labor economics, economic growth, income distribution, and poverty reduction. He has published extensively on these topics. Among his recent publications are “New Employment Trends in China: How Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping the Labor Market” (CITIC Press, 2025), “The Era of Population Decline” (CITIC Press, 2023), “China's Economic Development: Implications for the World” (Taylor & Francis, 2023), and “China’s Economic Growth Prospects - From Demographic Dividend to Reform Dividend” (Edward Elgar, 2016).

Mário CENTENO is former Governor of the Bank of Portugal, and former Minister of Finance of Portugal, and Eurogroup President with a record of shaping EU fiscal, financial and economic reforms and management of the Euro, COVID and Ukraine crises.

Led negotiations on the NextGen EU, COVID and Digital Euro. Delivered Portugal’s first budget surplus in democracy and strengthened financial stability through banking restructuring and economic growth. Harvard-PhD economist with government and international experience.

Martin Chorzempa, senior fellow since January 2021, joined the Peterson Institute for International Economics as a research fellow in 2017. He gained expertise in financial innovation while in Germany as a Fulbright Scholar and researcher at the Association of German Banks. He conducted research on financial liberalization in Beijing, first as a Luce Scholar at Peking University’s China Center for Economic Research and then at the China Finance 40 Forum, China’s leading independent think tank. In 2017, he graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government with a masters in public administration in international development.

Chorzempa is author of The Cashless Revolution: China's Reinvention of Money (Public Affairs, October 2022). He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, MIT Technology Review, and Foreign Affairs.

Barry Eichengreen is George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Chair and Distinguished Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. In 1997-98 he was Senior Policy Advisor at the International Monetary Fund.

Professor Eichengreen is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (class of 1997). He is a distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association (class of 2022), a corresponding fellow of the British Academy (class of 2022), and a Life Fellow of the Cliometric Society (class of 2013). He has held Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships and been a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Palo Alto) and the Institute for Advanced Study (Berlin). For 15 years from 2004 he served as convener of the Bellagio Group of academics and officials. He is a regular monthly columnist for Project Syndicate.

Professor Eichengreen has been awarded the Economic History Association’s Jonathan R.T. Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching and the University of California at Berkeley Social Science Division’s Distinguished Teaching Award. He is the recipient of a doctor honoris causa from the American University in Paris, and was the 2010 recipient of the Schumpeter Prize from the International Schumpeter Society and the 2022 recipient of the Nessim Habif Prize for Contributions to Science and Industry. He was named one of Foreign Policy Magazine’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers in 2011. He is a past president of the Economic History Association (2010-11).

His most recent book is Money Beyond Borders: Global Currencies from Croesus to Crypto (Princeton University Press, 2026).

Ekkehard Ernst is Chief of the Macro-economic policies and jobs unit at the International Labour Organization where he signs responsible for the World Employment and Social Outlook Trends report, ILO’s flagship report on global labour market developments. His work focuses on the implications of artificial intelligence, demographic change and globalization for the future of work, including in developing countries, as well as on the transition to a sustainable society.

Ekkehard has international experience at the OECD and the European Central Bank. He is member of various advisory boards, including the European Parliament’s International Advisory Board of the Science and Technology Committee, the UK’s Productivity Insight Network, Pillars, CEPS, The Conference Board, and the Economists Network of the German Ministry of Collaboration and Development. He holds a PhD from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris).

Jens Eskelund is President of European Union Chamber of Commerce in China.  He holds an MA in philosophy and has studied at University of Aarhus and University of Texas at Austin. He has also pursued studies in Chinese at Renmin University in Beijing. Coming to Beijing as a student in 1998, Jens Eskelund began his career in China as Commercial Officer at the Danish Embassy to China before taking on a position in marketing for Maersk Line in Beijing in 2000.

Today, he serves as Chief Representative for Maersk in the Greater China Area and North-East Asia. Jens Eskelund has also served as Chairman of the Liner Shipping Working Group of the EU Chamber of Commerce (EUCCC) in China for a decade and was elected president of the EUCCC in May 2023. EUCCC is a leading business organization in China representing 1700 European companies through ten offices in the country. Jens was re-elected president of the EUCCC in May 2025.

Kristin Forbes is the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Global Economics at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. She has regularly rotated between academia and senior policy positions, including as an External Member of the Monetary Policy Committee for the Bank of England, as a Member of the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers and in the US Treasury Department. Her academic research focuses on monetary policy, financial crises, global imbalances, contagion, exchange rates, and capital flows. In 2019, Forbes was named an Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. She is currently the Convener of the Bellagio Group, a member of the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee on advisory committees for the IMF and BIS, and a research associate at the NBER and CEPR.

She received her PhD in Economics from MIT and graduated summa cum laude with highest honors from Williams College.

Dr. Jacob A. Frenkel is Chairman Emeritus of the Group of Thirty (G-30), Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Governors of Tel Aviv University, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the financial firm Plus500.

Previously, he was Chairman of JPMorgan International (2009-2020), Vice Chairman of AIG (2004-9), Chairman of Merrill Lynch International (2000-2004), and two-terms Governor of the Bank of Israel (1991-2000). He is credited with reducing inflation in Israel and achieving price stability, liberalizing Israel’s financial markets, removing foreign exchange controls, and integrating the Israeli economy into the global financial system.  Previously, he was the Economic Counselor and Director of Research, at the IMF (1987-1991), and the David Rockefeller Professor of International Economics at the University of Chicago (1973-1987). He was a member of the Board of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, of the Economic Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and of Temasek International Panel. 

He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Distinguished Fellow of the CEPR, a Global Member of the Trilateral Commission, a member of the Board of Directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the International Advisory Council of the Weizmann Institute of Science, of the Bund Summit, Shanghai, and a co-Chair of the Capital Markets Advisory Committee of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He also served as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank (1995-1996), and as Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (1999-2000). During 2009-19 he served on the corporate Boards of Boston Properties, and of Loews Corporation.

Dr. Frenkel is a Laureate of the 2002 Israel Prize in Economics, and is a   recipient of several Honorary Doctoral degrees and other decorations and awards from various governments and universities.

Jason Furman is the Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, jointly at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard's Department of Economics. He serves as the Weil Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

He coteaches Ec10, "Principles of Economics," the largest course at Harvard. From 2013 to 2017, Furman served as the 28th Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, acting as President Obama's chief economist and a member of the cabinet, capping eight years as a top economic adviser in the Obama White House.

Furman has also advised governments around the world on economic policy. He chaired the United Kingdom's Digital Competition Expert Panel, whose 2019 report provided the intellectual foundation for the UK's Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act and influenced digital competition reforms internationally. For these contributions to UK public policy, he was appointed an honorary Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE). His research and writing span U.S. and international macroeconomics, fiscal policy, labor markets, and competition policy. He is a contributing Opinion writer at the New York Times and the editor of two books on economic policy. Furman holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.

Ignacio Garcia Bercero was active at the European Commission from 1987 to 2024.Among his various responsibilities, he participated in the Uruguay Round negotiations and was subsequently posted in the EU Delegation to the United Nations in New York. Upon his return to Brussels he worked in the preparation of what eventually became the Doha Development agenda and was head of unit for legal affairs and WTO dispute settment. 

From 2005 until 2011 he was Director responsible for the areas of Sustainable Development, Bilateral Trade Relations (South Asia, South-East Asia, Korea, Russia and ex-CIS countries, EuroMed and the Middle East). He was also the Chief Negotiator for the EU-Korea and EU-India Free Trade Agreements. From 2012 he was responsible for overseeing EU activities in the field of Neighbouring countries, US and Canada and was Chief negotiator for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. He headed the Directorate for Multilateral Affairs and Trade Strategy from 2021 to 2024. Ignacio Garcia Bercero retired from the European Commission in April 2024 and is now non resident fellow at Breughel, Brussels as from September 2024.

In 2020 he has completed a Fellowship at Saint Anthony’s College Oxford where his research focused on WTO reform. Since 2021 he is Visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science of the University College London and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE Ideas, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mr Garcia Bercero holds a Law Degree from the Law Faculty of Universidad Complutense, Madrid and a Master of Laws Degree (with Distinction) from University College, London.
Mr Garcia Bercero has written several papers and publications on WTO matters, including WTO reform, Dispute Settlement, Competition Policy and Regulatory Cooperation.

Vitor Gaspar is a Researcher at the Institute for Political Studies (IEP) of the UCP (Universidade Catolica Portuguesa) and Non-resident Fellow at Bruegel.

In his research and policy work he explores the interaction between markets, institutions and politics.  In the past he has focused on fiscal governance, state capacity, tax capacity, monetary policy strategy and the political economy of integration.

 
Previously, Vitor was Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department at the International Monetary Fund (2014–2025), Minister of State and Finance of Portugal (2011–2013) and held senior positions at the European Central Bank, the European Commission, Banco de Portugal and the Portuguese Ministry of Finance. He negotiated the Maastricht Treaty as personal representative of the Portuguese Minister of Finance.

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas is the S.K. and Angela Chan Professor of Global Management, University of California, Berkeley and  director of the  Clausen Center for International Business and Policy. From 2022 to 2026, he was the Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund.

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas attended Ecole Polytechnique and received his PhD in Economics in 1996 from MIT. He taught at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Princeton University before joining UC Berkeley department of economics. Professor Gourinchas' main research interests are in international macroeconomics and finance. His recent research focuses on geo-economic fragmentation (with Gita Gopinath, Andrea Presbitero and Petia Topalova), the drivers of global inflation (with Mai Dao, Allan Dizioli, Chris Jackson, Daniel Leigh, Prachi Mishra),  covered and uncovered parity deviations (with Mai Chi Dao and Oleg Itskhoki), exchange rate and term premia (with Walker Ray and Dimitri Vayanos), the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on small and medium sized firms (with Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Veronika Penciakova and Nick Sander), the scarcity of global safe assets, global imbalances and currency wars (with Ricardo Caballero and Emmanuel Farhi); on the International Monetary System and the role of the U.S. dollar (with Hélène Rey); on the Dominant Currency Paradigm (with Gita Gopinath); on the determinants of capital flows to and from developing countries (with Olivier Jeanne); on international portfolios (with Nicolas Coeurdacier); and on the global financial crisis (with Maury Obstfeld). 

Professor Gourinchas is the laureate of the 2007 Bernàcer Prize for best European economist working in macroeconomics and finance under the age of 40, and of the 2008 Prix du Meilleur Jeune Economiste for best French economist under the age of 40. In 2012-2013, Professor Gourinchas was a member of the French Council of Economic Advisors to the Prime Minister.

From 2009 to 2016 he was the editor-in-chief of the IMF Economic Review and from 2017 to 2019 the managing editor of the Journal of International Economics. Between 2019 and 2022, he was co-editor of the American Economic Review. From 2017 to 2022 he served as director of the NBER's International Finance and Macroeconomics Program.

Professor Gourinchas is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a Distinguished Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research. 

Guo Kai is President of CF40 Research. Before joining CF40 Institute, Dr. Guo was an economist at the International Monetary Fund in Washington D.C. and then worked at the People’s Bank of China in various capacities, including in the Monetary Policy Department and the International Department. His main research areas include the Chinese economy and its macroeconomic policies as well as international finance. Dr. Guo is the author of three popular Chinese economics books and multiple academic papers in various English and Chinese journals.

Dr. Guo holds a Ph.D. degree in Economics from Harvard University.

Sergei Guriev is the tenth Dean of London Business School, a position he has held since August 2024. Prior to his appointment, Sergei Guriev served as Professor of Economics and Rector at the New Economic School in Moscow, Professor of Economics and Provost at Sciences Po, Paris, and Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

Dean Guriev is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London and a Global Member of the Trilateral Commission. In 2006, he was selected a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He is also a member of the Group of Thirty.

Yiping HUANG is Peking University Boya Distinguished Professor, Dean of the National School of Development, Dean of the Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development and Director of the Institute of Digital Finance, Peking University. In March 2024, he was reappointed as a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People’s Bank of China. In April 2026, he was invited to join the Group of Thirty (G30). Currently is also a member of the Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing’s Mainland China Advisory Group, a member of the China Finance 40 Forum, a member of the China Economists 50 Forum, Deputy Secretary-General of the China Society of Finance and Banking, Chairman of the Special Committee on Fintech Development and Research of the National Internet Finance Association of China, an Associate Editor of Asian Economic Policy Review.

His key research interests are macro economy, financial policy and digital finance.

Tianlei Huang is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. His research focuses on the Chinese economy, and he manages the Institute’s China-related activities. His forthcoming book, Detox: China’s Fiscal Reckoning in the Shadow of the Housing Bust, examines the implications of China’s housing crisis for government finances. He also translated former Canadian Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff’s Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics into Chinese, published in 2017. Huang’s research and commentary have appeared in leading media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, Bloomberg, the Economist, and Caixin.

Huang holds master’s degrees in international relations from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and in political science from Tsinghua University. He received his bachelor’s degree in international politics from Fudan University.

Claudio Irigoyen is managing director and head of Global Economics Research for BofA Global Research. In this capacity, he oversees the Global Economics Research team, coordinates global economics forecasts and reports on the global economic landscape.

Prior to being named head of Global Economics Research, Irigoyen was head of Latin America Economics, Equities and Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange Research. He ranked number one for several years in the Latin America Institutional Investor surveys, and under his leadership, the Latin America team ranked first overall.

Before joining BofA in 2011, Irigoyen served as head of Global Macro Trading at Deutsche Bank Proprietary Trading. Prior to joining Wall Street, he served as chief economist and director of monetary policy at the Central Bank of Argentina for half a decade.

Irigoyen holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. 

Sonali Jain-Chandra is Deputy Director in the International Monetary Fund’sAsia and Pacific Department. In this function, she oversees the department’s work on advancedand low-income countries, including program countries. She also oversees the work the Regional Studies Division on regional issues. Previously, she was mission chief for China for a number years and Division Chief of the North Asia division in APD. She also served as Mission Chief on Ethiopia and Division Chief in the IMF’s African Department.

She has wide-ranging country experience since joining the Fund in 2003, also having worked on India, Korea, Indonesia, Hong Kong SAR, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Nepal, and Bhutan. She also previously worked in the IMF’sStrategy, Policy, and Review Department on vulnerabilities in emerging markets and advanced economies. Ms. Jain-Chandra’s research interests and publications have mainly focused oncapital flows, international banking linkages, labor markets, fiscal rules, income inequality, macroeconomics of gender, and financial stability.

She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University; a B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University, and BA in Economics from Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi.

Prakash Kannan is Chief Economist and Director of the Total Portfolio Strategy Group at GIC. He leads the development of the firm’s outlook on the global investment environment and asset allocation strategy. He is a member of GIC’s Investment Management Committee, Sustainability Committee, Group Risk Committee, and Currency Risk Management Group. His previous roles at the firm include Deputy Director of Total Portfolio Strategy and Head of Economics and Capital Markets.

Prakash joined GIC in 2012. Prior to that, he worked at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Bank Negara Malaysia. He currently serves as Vice President and Chair of the Investment Committee of the Economic Society of Singapore. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER), and the Investment Committee of the Singapore Indian Development Association (SINDA). He previously served on the Advisory Board of the Centre for Asset Management Research and Investments (CAMRI) at the National University of Singapore Business School. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the European Economic Review and the Journal of International Money and Finance.

Prakash holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from MIT and a PhD in Economics from Stanford University. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst charterholder.

Klaas Knot was President of De Nederlandsche Bank from 1 July 2011 to 1 July 2025, a period during which he was also a member of the European Central Bank's Governing Council and General Council, the European Systemic Risk Board, the International Monetary Fund's Board of Governors, and the Bank for International Settlements' Board of Directors. He served as Chair of the G20's Financial Stability Board from 2 December 2021 to 1 July 2025.

Knot currently runs his own strategic consultancy firm, KK Economic Advisory, where he advises European and Dutch public authorities on wide-ranging issues such as crisis management, central bank independence, and financing public infrastructure. He is also a frequent speaker at various (inter)national conferences and symposia.

Knot recently joined the Peterson Institute for International Economics as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow and became member of the CFA Institute Systemic Risk Council. He has been an active member of the Group of Thirty, a global advisory body comprised of economic and financial leaders, since 2019. He has been (honorary) professor of money and banking at the University of Groningen since 2005, and honorary professor of monetary stability at the University of Amsterdam since 2015. He has published a variety of articles in leading Dutch and international journals on monetary and financial economics.

 
Before assuming DNB's presidency, Knot served as Director of Financial Markets and (Deputy) Treasurer-General at the Dutch Ministry of Finance (2009–2011). He held various positions at DNB from 1995-2009, interspersed with positions at the International Monetary Fund (1998-1999) and the former Dutch Pensions and Insurance Supervisory Authority (2003-2004).

Knot earned his undergraduate degree with honors in economics from the University of Groningen in 1991 and his doctorate in economics there in 1995. In 2025, he was appointed Grand Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau in recognition of his distinguished public service.

Donald Kohn holds the Robert V. Roosa Chair in International Economics and is a senior fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. Kohn is a 40-year veteran of the Federal Reserve system, serving as member and then vice chair of the Board of Governors from 2002-2010.  He also served as an external member of the Financial Policy Committee at the Bank of England from 2011-2021.

Kohn is an expert on monetary policy, financial regulation, and macroeconomics and has written extensively on these issues. Prior to taking office as a member of the Board of Governors he served in a number of staff roles at the Board, including secretary of the Federal Open Market Committee (1987-2002) and director of the Division of Monetary Affairs (1987-2001). He has also served as chairman of the Committee on the Global Financial System (CGFS), a central bank panel that monitors and examines broad issues related to financial markets and systems.

He advised Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke throughout the 2008-2009 financial crisis and served as a key adviser to former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan. He is on a number of advisory committees to US government agencies, including for the Office of Financial Research, the FDIC, and the Congressional Budget Office.

Philip R. Lane joined the European Central Bank as a Member of the Executive Board in 2019. He is responsible for the Directorate General Economics and the Directorate General Monetary Policy. Before joining the ECB, he was the Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland. He has also chaired the Advisory Scientific Committee and Advisory Technical Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board and was Whately Professor of Political Economy at Trinity College Dublin. He is also a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research.

A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, he was awarded a PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1995 and was Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Columbia University from 1995 to 1997, before returning to Dublin. In 2001 he was the inaugural recipient of the Bernácer Prize for outstanding contributions to European monetary economics.

Mr. Xiaochun Liu joined Shanghai Finance Institute as Vice President in January 2019.

Mr. Liu received a bachelor’s degree from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Mr. Liu spent more than 30 years at the Agricultural Bank of China (ABC), and served as Deputy General Manager of the International Business Department, Vice President of ABC Zhejiang Branch and President of ABC Hong Kong Branch. From July 2014 to April 2018, he was Vice Chairman and President of China Zheshang Bank (CZB).

Mary E. Lovely is the Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute. She served as the 2022 Carnegie Chair in US-China Relations with the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. Lovely is professor emeritus of economics at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, where she was Eggers Economics Faculty Scholar from 2010 to April 2022. She was coeditor of the China Economic Review during 2011-2015.

Her current research projects investigate the effect of US tariffs on domestic port activity, strategic reform of US tariffs on China, and recent movements in global supply chains. She is a frequent contributor to US and global media outlets. Lovely earned her PhD in economics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a master's degree in city and regional planning from Harvard University.

Ming LU is Distinguished Lecturing Professor of Economics, Director of Shanghai Institute for National Economy (SHINE), and research fellow of China Institute of Urban Governance at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.  He is appointed as a member of the National "15th Five Year Plan" Expert Committee and a member of the Shanghai Decision Making Advisory Committee.

He worked as a professor at Fudan University, and as a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He has consulted for the World Bank and Asian Development Bank.

His research covers regional and urban-rural development, labor economics and the Chinese economy. Recently, his work evaluates the urban and regional development policies, and their effects on resource allocation and economic sustainability from a perspective of spatial and political economics.

David Lubin is the Michael Klein Senior Research Fellow in the Global Economy and Finance Programme where he focuses on China, on the international monetary system, and on economic policy in developing and advanced economies.

Before joining Chatham House, he was managing director and head of emerging markets economics at Citi, an American bank, where he was responsible for a team of some 30 economists in 15 locations globally.

David has a undergraduate degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University; and a postgraduate degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

His book, Dance of the Trillions: Developing Countries and Global Finance, examines what makes money flow from high-income countries to lower-income ones; what makes it flow out again; and how developing countries have sought protection against the volatility of international capital flows. The Financial Times selected it as one of the best economics books of 2018.

Gene is the Chief Representative for APAC and the Head of China Research at IIF. His work is to help global financial institutions and policymakers better understand China’s economy and financial market. He also manages IIF’s offices in Singapore and Beijing.

Prior to joining IIF, Gene was the China Strategist at Tudor Investment. He also served as an MD at ISI Group (now Evercore ISI), chief macro analyst at Citic Securities. He was elected to the Bretton Woods Committee, which dedicates to the research of today's most important economic and financial issues. Gene graduated from Peking Univ. and Cornell University.

Mr. Mills was appointed the International Monetary Fund’s Senior Resident Representative in China in February 2025.

Prior to that, he worked as the Division Chief for the Pacific Island region in the IMF’s Asia and Pacific Department (APD) and as the IMF’s mission chief to Fiji. Among his previous roles in the IMF, he served as the mission chief to Angola, Madagascar, Seychelles, and Togo. He has worked in the IMF for nearly 20 years, including a stint in the Strategy, Policy, and Review Department, where he led work on trade, capital flows, and IMF lending policy.

Prior to joining the IMF, he worked at the US Treasury Department (where he helped negotiate China’s accession to the WTO), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (where he helped manage relations with non-members), and the US Office of Management and Budget. He attended Princeton University (masters in public affairs), France’s Ecole Nationale d’Administration (advanced degree), and the University of North Carolina (undergraduate).

Sung Wook Moon has been a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate School of Economics of Yonsei University since 2022, and in 2025 he joined Yulchon LLC as an advisor in fields including trade and industry. Since 2025, he has also served as an Outside Director of Samsung E&A and an Associate Member of the National Academy of Engineering Korea, and since 2023 he has been an Outside Director of DN Solutions.

From 2021 to 2022, he served as Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy of the Republic of Korea. Prior to that, he was 2nd Vice Minister of Government Policy Coordination in the Office of the Prime Minister from 2020 to 2021, Vice Governor of Gyeongsangnam-do from 2018 to 2020, Deputy Minister of Industry at the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy from 2017 to 2018, and Vice Administrator of the Defense Acquisition Program Administration from 2016 to 2017.

His earlier government service includes Director General for System Industry at the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy from 2014 to 2016; Director General for Middle Market Enterprise Policy at the Ministry of Knowledge Economy in 2012; Director General for Civil-Military Cooperation of the Korean Helicopter Program at the Defense Acquisition Program Administration from 2011 to 2012; and Director of the Industrial Policy Division and the Foreign Investment Policy Division at the Ministry of Knowledge Economy from 2008 to 2011. He also served as Commercial Attaché at the Embassy of the Republic of Korea to Canada from 2004 to 2008, Director in the Office of the President from 2001 to 2004, and Deputy Director or Assistant Director at the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy from 1991 to 2001. 

He holds an MPA from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in 1998, an MPA from Seoul National University’s Graduate School of Public Administration in 1990, and a B.A. in Economics from Yonsei University in 1987. He qualified as an Administrative Attorney in the Republic of Korea in 2015.

Mr. Takehiko Nakao is currently Center for International Economy and Strategy. He is also an executive board member (external) of the Daiichi Life Insurance, Ltd. He is Visiting Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) and was Visiting Professor at Graduate School of Public Policy, the University of Tokyo in 2020-2025.

From April 2013 to January 2020, Mr. Nakao served as President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), which is based in Manila with membership of 69 countries including 46 regional developing countries. Mr. Nakao was the Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs between 2011 and 2013, and in charge of foreign exchange markets, G20 and G7 processes, ASEAN+3 financial cooperation, and bilateral financial relations with the US, Asian, and others.

Mr. Nakao has gained extensive experience in international finance, budget, tax policy, and financial market since he joined the Ministry of Finance in 1978. He was assigned as Minister at the Embassy of Japan in Washington D.C. between 2005 and 2007, and worked as advisor at IMF's Policy Development and Review Department between 1994 and 1997.

He has published books and numerous papers on financial and economic issues both in Japanese and English. His memoir “The Rise of Asia: Perspectives and Beyond” covering his ADB days as well as those of Vice Minister was published by ADB in July 2022 (available on ADB HP). He also took an initiative and was a lead editor for “Asia’s Journey to Prosperity: Policy, Market, and Technology over 50 Years”, published by ADB in January 2020 (available on ADB HP).

Mr. Nakao holds a BA degree in Economics from the University of Tokyo (1978) and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California-Berkeley (1982).

Ceyla Pazarbasioglu is Chief Operating Officer of the Group of Thirty, joining in June 2026. She served as Director of the Strategy, Policy, and Review Department (SPR) of the International Monetary Fund from 2020-2025. In this position, Ms. Pazarbasioglu lead the work on the IMF’s strategic direction and the design and implementation of its policies and lending activities across all IMF member countries. She led the IMF’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including scaled up emergency financing and negotiations on the historic $650 billion 2021 general allocation of Special Drawing Rights.

Ms. Pazarbasioglu’s deep expertise on sovereign debt issues was instrumental in launching several important initiatives including the Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI) for the IMF, the G20 Common Framework for Debt Treatment for low-income countries facing unsustainable debt levels, and the Global Sovereign Debt Roundtable (GSDR) with the World Bank and the G20 for countries outside of the Common Framework.

She served at the World Bank Group from 2015–2020, most recently as the Vice President for Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions and also worked on policy and country issues during two previous tenures at the IMF (1992–1998 and 2003–2015). Ms. Pazarbasioglu holds a doctorate in economics and finance from Georgetown University and studied at Princeton University (visiting scholar). She is a certified Securities and Financial Derivates Representative (from the U.K.) and is a Chartered Financial Analyst Charter holder.

Mark Pearson is Acting Director for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (ELS) at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Mr. Pearson oversees the work of the Organisation on employment, health, migration, and social policies. Since 2009, he has led the Organisation’s work on health, demonstrating that a strong health system is essential for a strong, productive economy. Through his leadership, the Organisation has focused helping countries develop effective policies to prevent harmful lifestyle choices; to modernise their health care workforce; and to digitalise the health sector more rapidly. Through the COVID-19 pandemic, he supported countries in their crisis management, and led an OECD-wide initiative on safe international mobility.

Mr. Pearson has degrees from Oxford and London.

Jean Pisani-Ferry is a Senior Fellow at Bruegel, the European think tank, and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute (Washington DC). He teaches at Sciences Po (Paris). He serves as non-executive chair of I4CE, the French institute for climate economics. He is a Distinguished Fellow of CEPR.

 
Pisani-Ferry served from 2013 to 2016 as Commissioner-General of France Stratégie, the ideas lab of the French government. In 2017, he contributed to Emmanuel Macron’s presidential bid as Director of programme and ideas of his campaign. He was from 2005 to 2013 the Founding Director of Bruegel. Beforehand, he was Executive President of the French PM’s Council of Economic Analysis (2001-2002), Senior Economic Adviser to the French Minister of Finance (1997-2000), and Director of CEPII, the French institute for international economics (1992-1997).

 
His publications include numerous books and articles on economic policy, European policy issues and international topics. He has also been an active contributor to public debates with regular columns in Le Monde and for Project Syndicate. His latest books are The Green Frontier, Peterson Institute 2024 (co-edited with Adam Posen) and New World, New Rules (with George Papaconstantinou, Agenda Publishing and Columbia University Press, 2024.

Adam S. Posen is president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Under his leadership, since January 2013, the Institute has grown to 45 world-renowned fellows and won global recognition for its research on macroeconomics, trade, and globalization. He has himself contributed to research and public policy in the areas of G20 monetary and fiscal policies, the political foundations of central bank independence, European economic integration since the euro, and Japan’s recovery from its Great Recession. From 2009 to 2012, Posen served as an external voting member of the Bank of England's rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). He co-authored Inflation Targeting with Bernanke, Laubach, and Mishkin while at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1994-97).

His current research addresses globalization’s future amidst China-U.S. conflict, including his widely cited recent articles, “The Post-American World Economy,” “The Price of Nostalgia,” “The End of China’s Economic Miracle,” “Trade Wars are Easy to Lose,” and “The New Economic Geography,” all in Foreign Affairs.

Shri Suresh Prabhu is a globally renowned policy strategist, visionary leader, and sustainability advocate with an illustrious career in governance, finance, infrastructure, climate action, and international diplomacy. A six-time Member of Parliament and former Union Cabinet Minister, he has held 10 key ortfolios including Railways, Commerce & Industry, Civil Aviation, Power, Environment, and Heavy Industries.

He has worked extensively at village, district, state, national, and global levels across cooperative sectors, serving as the youngest Chairman of Saraswat Bank and being on the board of the National Cooperative Union of India (NCUI).

As a global thought leader, he has represented India at the G20, G7, United Nations, and several multilateral forums, addressing top universities and policy platforms across 120+ countries. He has co-founded leading think tanks, including the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) and Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation, and continues to guide global dialogues on energy, climate, trade, and sustainable development.

Suresh Prabhu is also a distinguished academic, serving as Chancellor of Rishihood University and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Recognized globally, he has been conferred multiple honorary doctorates and awarded by prestigious national and international institutions for his lifelong contribution to public policy, innovation, and human development.

Lucrezia Reichlin is a Professor of Economics at London Business School, a Fellow of the Bruegel think-tank, a member of the French National Productivity Council, a board member of the euro-50, a distinguished fellow and member of the advisory board of the Center for European Policy Research. 

From 2005 to 2008 she was Director General of Research at the European Central Bank. She has been board member of several financial institutions including Unicredit, Morgan Stanley International, Ageas SA/NV, a consultant for several central banks, including the US Federal Reserve and a trustee of the International Reporting Standard Foundation.

She is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of the American Economic Association, a Fellow of the European Economic Association and of the Academia Europaea, a Founding Fellow of the Applied Econometrics Association, a foreign member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in France.

Debora Revoltella is Senior Fellow at Bruegel since July 2026, working on a wide range of topics including European competitiveness, economic security and strategic autonomy, EU-Asia relations and Artificial Intelligence. Debora has been for more than 15 years Director of the Economics Department of the European Investment Bank, serving as Chief Economist. She led the work of flagship publications such as the EIB Investment Report and the EIB Investment Survey, she was responsible for country risk and impact assessment, and she actively contributed to many strategic files, including the Draghi Report. Debora has also a strong private sector background, with more than a decade as Chief Economist and Head of Strategy for CESEE in UniCredit and Bank Austria and previous experience in the research department of Banca Commerciale Italiana.

Debora holds a degree in Economics, a Master in Economics from Bocconi University and a PhD in Economics from the University of Ancona, Italy, where she started her carrier as adjunct professor of Macroeconomics. She is member of the Steering Committees of the Vienna Initiative and CompNet, a member of the Boards of the SUERF and a member of the Euro 50 Group. She is also chairing the Chief Economists meeting, bringing together members from the public and private sector. 

Chang Yong Rhee was the Governor of the Bank of Korea and the Chairman of its Monetary Policy Board (2022-2026). He served as the Chair of the Committee on the Global Financial System (2023-2026) and as a member of the Board of Directors at the BIS (2022-2026). Prior to joining the BOK, he was Director of the Asia and Pacific Department at the IMF (2014-2022); Chief Economist of the ADB (2011-2014); Secretary General and Sherpa of the Presidential Committee for the 2010 G-20 Seoul Summit (2009-2011); Vice Chairman of the Financial Services Commission (2008-2009). Professor, Associate Professor, and Assistant Professor of Economics at Seoul National University (1994-2008); Assistant Professor at University of Rochester (1989-1994).

He received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1989.

Stephen Roach has been a member of the Yale faculty since 2010.  After thirteen years as the first senior fellow of Yale’s Jackson Institute of Global Affairs, he joined Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center in 2022. He was formerly Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and the firm’s Chief Economist for the bulk of his 30-year career at Morgan Stanley. 

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 1982, Stephen Roach served on the research staff of the Federal Reserve Board and was also a research fellow at the Brookings Institution. Mr. Roach is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Investment Committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Economics Advisory Board of the University of Wisconsin, and the Advisory Board of NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Roach’s current research program focuses on the conflict-prone US-China relationship. His latest book, Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives (Yale University Press, 2022) examines the ominous trajectory of conflict escalation between the United States and China and a provides a unique roadmap for conflict resolution.  His 2014 book, Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China explored the risks and opportunities of the world’s most important economic relationship of the 21st century.

He holds a Ph.D. in economics from New York University.

Edward Robinson is Deputy Managing Director (Economic Policy Group) and Chief Economist at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). He studied economics and econometrics at Monash University and the University of Melbourne. He has been with the MAS since 1992 and currently heads the EPG which formulates Singapore's monetary policy and macroprudential policy, as well as undertakes research on broader economic and financial issues facing the domestic and external economies. The Group oversees enterprise information and data management for MAS.

He has been involved in other areas of policy work including the inter-Ministry Economic Monitoring Group which reviews the government's official economic forecasts, and inter-agency forums that look at the structural challenges facing the Singapore economy. He served on the Board of the Singapore Competition Commission (now Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore) in 2005-07 and was a member of the Social Science Research Council in 2019-2024. He was appointed Adjunct Professor in the School of Social Sciences, at Nanyang Technological University, and in the Department of Economics, National University of Singapore in 2025.

He was awarded the Public Administration Medal (Bronze) in 2002, the Public Administration Medal (Silver) in 2014, the Long Service Award in 2018, and the Public Administration Medal (Gold) in 2022.

Robert E. RUBIN served as the 70th Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. He began his career in finance at Goldman, Sachs & Company and served as vice chairman and co-chief operating officer. Rubin joined the Clinton Administration in 1993 as the first director of the White House National Economic Council. He served as a member of the board of directors at Citigroup and as a senior advisor to the company. In 2010, he joined Centerview Partners as senior counselor. In June 2017, he concluded his 10-year term as Co-Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations and now serves as Co-Chairman Emeritus; is Vice Chairman of the Boards of Trustees of the Mount Sinai Health System; and is Chairman of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation. From 2002 to 2014, he was a member of the Harvard Corporation, and from 2016 to 2022, he served as a member of its Finance Committee. He is one of the founders of The Hamilton Project, an economic policy project housed at the Brookings Institution.

Rubin is the author of The Yellow Pad: Making Better Decisions in an Uncertain World (2023) and In An Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington (2003), which was a New York Times bestseller as well as being named one of Business Week’s ten best business books of the year.

 
He graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude and received an LL.B from Yale Law School. He has received honorary degrees from Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and other universities.

Alfred Schipke is Professor of the Practice of International Finance at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Director of the East Asian Institute (EAI) at the National University of Singapore. His work focuses on international finance, with a particular emphasis on China, India, and the evolving global economic architecture.

He is also an Adjunct Professor at Peking University and teaches international finance at Harvard Kennedy School. Professor Schipke has authored and co-edited a number of influential books and articles, including Africa–China Economic Partnership, India’s Financial System: Building the Foundations for Strong and Sustainable Growth, The Future of China’s Bond Market, and Modernizing China: Investing in Soft Infrastructure.

Prior to joining NUS, he served as Director of the IMF–Singapore Regional Training Institute for Asia and the Pacific and held several senior leadership roles at the International Monetary Fund, including Assistant Director, Mission Chief for India and China, and Senior Resident Representative in China. In these capacities, he advised governments on macroeconomic and financial sector policies, led analytical work, and supported capacity development across emerging markets.

Earlier in his IMF career, he was Division Chief in the Asia and Pacific Department, where he led work on frontier economies in Southeast Asia and served as Mission Chief for Vietnam. In the Western Hemisphere Department, he negotiated complex IMF-supported programs, including a US$800 million arrangement for El Salvador and a comprehensive program with debt restructuring for St. Kitts and Nevis.

Prof. Moritz Schularick is president of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy since June 2023 and Professor of Economics at Sciences Po (Paris). 

Prior to his appointment in Kiel, Moritz Schularick was Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Bonn, Director of the MacroFinance Lab there. He is also a Fellow of the DFG-Excellence Cluster ECONtribute and a full member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Academia Europea. Previously, he conducted research at New York University, the University of Cambridge, Freie Universität Berlin, and in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, among others.

He is a recipient of the 2022 Leibniz Prize, Germany's most prestigious research prize, awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). In 2018, he received the Gossen Prize of the Verein für Socialpolitik, the most prestigious award given to German economists. He is editor of the most important European journal for economic policy, "Economic Policy."

His research includes financial markets and asset prices, issues in monetary macroeconomics, and the causes of financial crises and economic inequality. He regularly advises central banks, ministries of finance, investors, and international organizations.

Henny Sender is currently a senior advisor to the Office of the CEO and Chairman of BlackRock in New York after serving as a Managing Director for BlackRock in Hong Kong. As a senior advisor she can continue to write for her previous employer at the Financial Times and the FT’s owner at the Nikkei and its English language Nikkei Asia publication as well as moderate panels and serve on panels. In her current role, she advises the Executive Office on opportunities in Asia, with a particular emphasis on alternative investment strategy in the Asian region, given her deep relations with the leading private equity and venture capital firms there.

While in Hong Kong from November 2020, to August of 2021, she engaged in extensive dialogue with BlackRock's clients in the region, including sovereign wealth funds, central banks and pension funds, and leveraged her contacts with leading venture capitalists to focus on China, sustainability and private markets.

Ms. Sender is particularly focused on China and India, the two dominant markets in Asia, living for more than 30 thirty years in Hong Kong and the five years before that in Tokyo.

Before joining BlackRock, Ms. Sender spent her entire career in journalism, and has decades of experience covering finance and economics in Asia serving as Chief Correspondent for International Finance with The Financial Times. Henny was with the Financial Times for 13 years, spending her time between New York and Hong Kong. For the 15 years prior to that, she was at Wall Street Journal as a Senior Special Writer in the Money and Investing section and the Far Eastern Economic Review (which was also owned by Dow Jones). Prior to moving to Hong Kong 1992, she was based in Tokyo for five years as Asian Bureau Chief for Institutional Investor. She has received recognition from the Overseas Press Club and the National Magazine awards for her work on subjects including the implosion of hedge fund Amaranth and to the Overseas Chinese network in Asia.

Ms. Sender completed a PhD in Indian History at the University of Wisconsin, detailing Hindu-Muslim relations in the period before Partition. Her work was then the basis of a book published by Oxford University Press. She had studied Chinese at Wisconsin but switched her focus to South Asia as it was difficult then to study on the mainland.

Ms. Sender is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in NY. She is also the founder of Apsara Advisory, a New York-based consultancy.

Lu SHI is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Standard Chartered Bank (China) Limited, as well as the Managing Director, Head of Coverage China, Corporate & Investment Banking. In her role, she is responsible for leading the business strategy, developing the network and cross-border business for the clients, and ensuring the effective governance and implementation of CIB and Standard Chartered China’s overall strategy.

Lu has over 22 years of experiences in the banking industry. She joined Standard Chartered from Citi China, where she was most recently Head of Multinational Corporate Banking. Prior to that, Lu was the Chief Risk Officer of Citi China, and has been in senior Risk roles covering North Asia and US at Citi where she accumulated expertise in Leverage Finance and Restructuring.

She studied international relations at Georgetown University as undergraduate and earned her MBA at Columbia University.

Masaaki Shirakawa was previously Governor of the Bank of Japan. He was appointed as Governor in April 2008, and left the Bank in March 2013. He was also Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements—an organization often described as the central bank of central banks—between January 2011 and March 2013. Currently, he is Distinguished Guest professor of Aoyama-Gakuin University (Tokyo) and a member of the Group of Thirty—a private, non-profit, international body composed of senior policymakers from central banks, supervisory agencies, the financial sector, and academia.

Masaaki Shirakawa joined the Bank of Japan (Tokyo) in 1972. At the Bank, he held various key positions, including the Bank's Chief Representative in the Americas and Executive Director in charge of monetary policy. Other professional experiences include professorship at the Kyoto University School of Government from July 2006 to March 2008.

Mr. CLAUDIO SOTO GAMBOA is a commercial engineer from Universidad de Chile and holds an M.S. from the same university and a Ph.D. in economics from New York University (NYU).  Former positions include being the manager of Research and Public Policy at Banco Santander Chile as from 2017 until his appointment as a Board member of the Central Bank of Chile. Between 2014 and 2017 he was Chief Macroeconomic Advisor to the Chilean Finance Minister.

His trajectory at the Central Bank of Chile began as Foreign Trade Analyst and Economic Research Analyst from 1995 to 1998; then Senior Economist with the Economic Research Department from 2002 to 2006; Head of Models & Projects department from 2006 to 2008; and Manager of Macroeconomic Analysis from 2008 to 2014.

He has authored several papers published in specialized journals and chapters in books. Among his academic activities, he has taught various undergraduate and graduate courses in macroeconomics and monetary theory at Universidad de Chile.

Krishna Srinivasan is the Director of the IMF’s Asia and Pacific Department (APD). In this capacity, he oversees the institution’s work on all countries in the Asia-Pacific region. He was previously a Deputy Director in the Western Hemisphere Department (WHD), where he supervised the institution’s work on several countries in the Americas, including Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Ecuador and the island economies of the Caribbean, the department’s research activities, and its flagship product, Regional Economic Outlook (REO) for Latin America and the Caribbean. He also co-edited several books, including Brazil—Boom, Bust and the Road to Recovery; Unleashing Growth and Strengthening Resilience in the Caribbean; and Challenges for Central Banking: Perspectives from Latin America.

Prior to joining WHD, Krishna was in the European Department, where he served as the IMF’s mission chief for the United Kingdom and Israel, and before that in the Research Department, where he led the IMF’s work on the G 20 in the context of the global financial crisis. In the context of the work on the G20, he edited a book titled Global Rebalancing: A Roadmap for Economic Recovery. Krishna has been with the IMF since 1994 and has served in several departments across the institution.

He secured his PhD in International Finance from Indiana University and a post-graduate degree from the Delhi School of Economics, India, and has published several papers both at the IMF and in leading academic journals.

Dr. Mingchun SUN is a member of China Finance 40 Forum, a Vice Chairman of the Chinese Financial Association of Hong Kong and the Chairman of the latter’s Green & Sustainable Finance Committee. He also serves as an adjunct professor at Fudan University, Shanghai Jiaotong University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), a senior economic advisor at Tencent Group, and a member of the Sustainable Development Committee of Silk Road Fund.

Previously, Dr. Sun served as chief China/Asia economist at global investment banks such as Lehman Brothers, Nomura, Daiwa, and Haitong International. He also worked as an economist at China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange in the 1990s.

Dr. Sun obtained his doctorate degree in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University and his bachelor’s degree in international economics from Fudan University.

Dr.Xuan Tian is Dean of Guanghua School of Management and Boya Distinguished Professor of Finance at Peking University. He serves as a deputy to the 14th National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China. He was appointed “Cheung Kong Scholar” Distinguished Professor by the Ministry of Education in 2016, won the National Natural Science Foundation of China Outstanding Young Scientists Fund in 2018 and received the first batch of extended funding in 2024. He holds multiple academic and social positions including Member of the 9th Advisory Committee of the Management Science Division of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and a member of China Finance 40 Forum (CF 40), and previously served as a Member of the Academic Committee of Tsinghua University and a member of relevant review committees of the CSRC and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.

His research focuses on the Chinese economy, sci-tech finance, corporate finance and venture capital, with findings published in domestic and foreign leading academic journals including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Economic Research Journal. He has won many honors including the Fudan Premium Award of Management for Outstanding Contributions, four Research Excellence Awards from the Kelley School of Business of Indiana University in the US and two JFE Jensen Prizes. He has been listed in the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers for consecutive years, with his papers ranked among the global top 1% highly influential ones over 200 times in total.

He has been invited to attend and speak at meetings hosted by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, and several of his internal reference reports have received important instructions from the principal leading comrades of the CPC Central Committee. Before joining Peking University, he was Vice Dean of PBC School of Finance, President of National Institute of Financial Research and JD Capital Chair Professor of Finance at Tsinghua University, tenured Professor of Finance at Kelley School of Business of Indiana University.

Mr. Carlson Tong is Chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited. Mr Tong is also an independent non-executive director of Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited and the Hong Kong Investment Corporation Limited; and a director of the World Federation of Exchanges and the working committee chair. In addition, Mr Tong is a member of the International Advisory Council of National Financial Regulatory Administration and a member of the Hong Kong – Europe Business Council of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council.

Mr. Tong was Chairman of KPMG China and Hong Kong from 2007 to 2011 and was Chairman of the Asia-Pacific region and a member of KPMG’s global board from 2009 to 2011. He was also an independent non-executive director of MTR Corporation Limited from 2022 to 2026 and of Standard Chartered PLC from 2019 to 2024.

Mr. Tong was appointed Chairman of the Securities and Futures Commission from 2012 to 2018. He oversaw the launch of several major policy initiatives during his term, including the introduction of the landmark Stock Connect programme and the mutual recognition of funds between Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong.

Mr. Tong devotes his time to the local community and was very active in Hong Kong’s education and youth sectors. He was Chairman of the English Schools Foundation, the Hong Kong Sports Institute and the University Grants Committee of Hong Kong.

Mr. Tu Guangshao is Chairman of the Executive Council Chairman of Shanghai Finance Institute, and Founding Chair of the Board, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SAIF). He is former Vice Chairman and President of China Investment Corporation. Immediately prior to this, he served as Executive Vice Mayor and Vice Mayor of Shanghai. He held several positions in China Securities Regulatory Commission, including Vice Chairman, Secretary-General, General Manager of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, Director General of the Department of Trading. He also acted as Deputy Director of the National Financial Market’s Quotation and Trading Information System Center of People’s Bank of China, Director and Deputy General Manager of the China Securities Trading System Corp.

Lord Turner is Co-Chair of Energy Transitions Commission, a global coalition of companies, NGOs, and experts working to achieve a net zero economy by 2040.

He is Chairman of insurer group Chubb Europe, and on the Advisory Board of Shanghai energy group Envision. From 2008-2013, Lord Turner chaired the Financial Services Authority, leading the redesign of global banking and shadow banking regulation.

Alongside a business career, he has held a number of public policy roles: he was Director General of the Confederation of British Industry (1995-2000); chaired the Low Pay Commission (2002-2006), the Pensions Commission (2003-2006), and the Climate Change Committee (2008-2012).

Nicolas Véron cofounded Bruegel in Brussels in 2002-05, joined PIIE in Washington DC in 2009, and is currently employed on similar terms by both organizations. He is also an independent board member of the global derivatives trade repository arm of DTCC, a financial infrastructure company that operates on a non-profit basis. A graduate of France’s Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines in Paris, his earlier experience was in the French government and private sector.

Véron’s research focuses on financial development and stability policies. He has long advocated supervisory integration in Europe, including in banking union (for which Bloomberg Markets included him in its yearly global “50 Most Influential” list in 2012), anti-money laundering, and capital markets supervision. 

Dr. Haiming WANG has been President of China Finance 40 Forum (CF40), a leading independent think tank in China, since 2008. Concurrently, he has also served as President of the Bund Summit Organizing Committee since 2019. Dr. Wang was named the Executive Deputy Director of the Institute of Digital Finance (IDF) at Peking University in October 2015 and later Chairman of its Council in April 2023.

Earlier in his career, Dr. Wang served in a number of roles at 21st Century Business Herald, a leading Chinese economic news agency, as a reporter, commentator, researcher, and convener and head of its editorial committee. He initiated the “21st Century Beijing Roundtable” series in 2003 and chaired 450 episodes of discussions.

Dr. Wang received his BA and PhD in Political Science from Peking University.

Prof. Dr. Axel A. Weber is President of the Center for Financial Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt. He is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of RAISIN SE, Chairman of the VISA Economic Empowerment Institute, Chairman of the Trilateral Commission Europe and a Member of the Group of Thirty. He also is a Member of the TEMASEK International Advisory Council and Senior Advisor to Boston Consulting Group.

He was Chairman of UBS Group AG in Zürich (2012 – 2022) and Chairman of the Institute for International Finance (IIF). He served as President of the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt (2004 – 2011), during which time he also served as a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank, as a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements, as German governor of the International Monetary Fund, and as a member of the G7 and G20 Ministers and Governors. He was a member of the steering committees of the European Systemic Risk Board and the Financial Stability Board.

His academic career encompasses professorships in international economics, monetary economics and economic theory at the universities of Cologne, Frankfurt, Bonn and a Visiting Professorship at the University of Chicago Booth School. He holds a master’s degree in economics from the University of Constance and a PhD in economics from the University of Siegen, where he also received his habilitation. He holds honorary doctorates from the universities of Duisburg-Essen and Constance.

Beatrice Weder di Mauro is the President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research(CEPR) and holds the André Hoffmann Chair of Economics, Climate, and Nature Finance at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Previously, she was a Research Professor at INSEAD Singapore (2015-2022) and a Professor of Economics at Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany.

From 2004 to 2012, she was a member of the German Council of Economic Experts. She continues to advise governments, international organizations, and central banks, including the European Commission, the governments of Germany and Switzerland, the ECB, Deutsche Bundesbank, and the IMF. She has served on the boards of major global companies such as Roche, UBS, and ThyssenKrupp, and currently sits on the boards of Unigestion and Bosch. Her research focuses on macroeconomics, financial crises, and climate and nature finance.

Johannes Wiegand has been the Director of the IMF Shanghai Center since May 2025. An IMF economist for more than 25 years, Dr. Wiegand previously led the IMF’s Regional Studies Division for Asia and the Pacific, and the Climate and Development Policy Division in the Strategy, Policy and Review Department. He also held senior positions in the IMF’s Research and European Departments. Dr. Wiegand has published on a wide range of topics, including structural transformation and growth in Asia and the Pacific, European monetary and economic history, currency regimes, dollarization, and global climate change mitigation policies. Prior to joining the IMF, he taught at the London School of Economics and wrote commentaries for the Financial Times.

He holds a PhD in economics from University College London and undergraduate degrees in economics and philosophy from the University of Munich.

Martin Wolf is Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times, London. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000.

He was a member of the UK government’s Independent Commission on Banking between June 2010 and September 2011. He is an honorary fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford and King’s College, London.  He has received honorary doctorates from six universities, including the London School of Economics. He is a University Global Fellow of Columbia University, New York. Mr Wolf won the Ludwig Erhard Prize for economic commentary for 2009, the 33rd Ischia International Journalism Prize in 2012, the Overseas Press Club of America’s prize for “best commentary on international news in any medium” for 2013 and the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Gerald Loeb Awards.

In 2026, he was joint winner the Global Economy Prize from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. His most recent publication is The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism  (London and New York: Allen Lane, 2023).

Mr. Xie Junshi joined ZTE in 2001. He has been serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer since September 2019. Prior to that, he acted as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer between July 2018 and September 2019. Committed to ZTE's development in the international market, Mr. Xie successively worked as Manager of the Commercial and Technical Dept. in ZTE Europe and South Asia, Vice President of ZTE Europe, and CTO of ZTE Europe and America from 2001 to 2018.

Mr. Xie has contributed a lot to the breakthroughs in the European and American markets. He has extensive managerial experience in market operations, project management, marketing and solution management, and operations management. Mr. Xie is dedicated to ZTE's digital transformation and operational efficiency improvement, and is now in charge of Operations Management and sales business of the company.

Mr. Xie Junshi holds a master's degree in engineering from Tsinghua University.

Professor Yang was admitted to Tsinghua University in 1987, and received his Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and Ph.D. degree in Management Science. He has a long and outstanding record as an educator, researcher, and senior administrator at Tsinghua University. He was Council Chairman of the School of Economics and Management (SEM), Dean of the Graduate School, Dean of Shenzhen International Graduate School (SIGS), President of Tsinghua University Education Foundation (TUEF), Dean of the School of Public Policy and Management (SPPM), Provost and Vice President of Tsinghua University. 

Professor Yang’s research interests focus on organizational leadership, ethics and social responsibility, and higher education. He has published many papers and books, and won a number of national and municipal prizes and awards.

Business Ethics & Corporate Social Responsibility, Higher Education Innovation. Additionally, he served as Co-Academic Director of the SEPC (Senior Executive Program for China), a collaborative executive education program among Harvard Business School, Tsinghua SEM, and CEIBS for 8 years.

Feng Yu, PhD, Professor‑Level Senior Engineer, Adjunct Professor of Beijing Jiaotong University, Recipient of Special Government Allowance from the State Council.

Currently CIO of Guotai‑Haitong Securities, and expert committee member for over ten institutions including the Academic Committee of China Capital Market Society, National Financial Standardization Technical Committee and China Finance Society.

Boasting 30‑year experience in tech R&D and IT management, he has headed multiple national‑level research programs and over ten government‑led innovation & pilot projects. He has led or contributed to more than 60 industrial technical standards, holds 19 patents, received 37 provincial‑ministerial science‑and‑technology awards, and published over 50 papers.

Arthur Yuen is in charge of the full range of banking policy, supervision, conduct, and enforcement issues. He joined the HKMA in 1996 as Head of Administration and has since taken up different responsibilities including research and liaison on China economic and market development issues before being appointed Head of Banking Supervision in 2000. He took up the position as Executive Director (Banking Development) in July 2004, Executive Director (Banking Supervision) in June 2005 and Executive Director (External) in July 2008. He was appointed to his present position on 1 January 2010.

He has been playing an active role as member of the FSB Standing Committee on Supervisory and Regulatory Cooperation. He has also been a member of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision since March 2010, and a Co-Chair of the Committee’s Policy and Standards Group (“PSG”) since 2021. He also chaired the Committee’s Supervision and Implementation Group (“SIG”) from September 2018 to December 2020.

Jeromin Zettelmeyer has been Director of Bruegel, the Brussels-based economic policy think tank, since September 2022. He was previously a Deputy Director of the Strategy and Policy Review Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (2016-19), Director-General for Economic Policy at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (2014-16); Director of Research and Deputy Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (2008-2014), and IMF staff member(1994-2008). 

Jeromin’s recent research has focused on the EU fiscal framework, public debt sustainability, economic security, and international climate finance. Aside from leading Bruegel, Jeromin is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a member of Euro50, and a member of CEPR’s Research and Policy Network on European Economic Policy, which he helped found.

He holds an economics degree from the University of Bonn (1990) and a Ph.D. in economics from MIT (1995). 

Ms. Zhang joined Ping An Asset Management Co. Ltd in 2006, and has served as President of the company since 2026.

Before joining PAAMC, she used to work for prominent financial institutions such as ABN AMRO Bank, Allianz Global Investors, and BOC International Asset Management (BlackRock’s joint venture) with over 25 years’ experience in financial industry in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Singapore.

 
Ms. Zhang holds a master degree in Financial Engineering from Nanyang Technological University Singapore, a Diploma in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon University US, and a bachelor degree in Management Information System from Fudan University China. She is currently the Vice Chairman of Shanghai Asset Management Association.

Yu Zhang currently serves as Chief Economist at Huachuang Securities.

She is a member of the Young and Middle-Aged Economists’ Federation of the China Society of Macroeconomics and the Chief Economist Committee of the Securities Association of China. She is also a member of the China Chief Economist Forum and the Youth Forum of the China Finance 40 Forum (CF40). In addition, she serves as an invited research fellow for a professional committee of the Insurance Asset Management Association of China and as a guest lecturer for MBA and EMBA programs at Peking University, Tsinghua University, Renmin University of China, and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.

On October 14, 2025, she was an invited participant in a symposium on the economic situation chaired by Chinese Premier Li Qiang. Between 2018 and 2025, she led her team as chief analyst to win awards across all major analyst rankings in China’s capital markets. She was named one of Sina Finance’s “Top 10 Voices in China’s Capital Markets” in both 2024 and 2025.

He ZHU is Senior Fellow, CF40 Institute. With over ten years of experience in macroeconomic research, He ZHU specializes in tracking domestic and international macroeconomic trends and capital market dynamics. He provides unique insights into economic policy and asset allocation strategies and is a key contributor to CF40’s Macroeconomic Policy Quarterly Report, which has gained significant attention from the market and policymakers.

He ZHU has published over 100 economic commentaries in major media outlets, including FT Chinese, People’s Daily Online, and Economic Observer. His books include The Economic Diagnosis of Zombie Enterprises, The New Era and New Cycle, and After the Growth Miracle.